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Presents a picture of the years during the First World War as seen by an underdog. This book is based on the author's own experiences during the First World War; in French colonial Africa; in the USA - where he worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit - and later as a young doctor in a working class suburb in Paris.

A fictional biography by Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

Ferdinand Bardamu is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but who take every advantage of his availability. The action is not continuous but goes back in time to earlier memories and often moves into fantasy, especially in Bardamu's sexual escapades.

The last of Celine's remarkable novels to be translated into English, 'Normance' tells the story of an air attack on Paris during World War II. A frantic narrator, in search of complicity, presents readers with a world in which reason and order are torn to shreds as the bombing turns Montmartre into an underworld teeming with dirty deeds. Marlon Jones' impressive translation vividly conveys ...

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Offers a different perspective on the war and the postwar political purges in France. This book tells the tale of a man imprisoned and reviled by his own countrymen, and follows its character's decline from virulent hatred to near madness as a result of his violent frustration with the hypocrisy and banality of his fellow human beings.

Originally published to shocked reviews in 1932 France, a scathing literary critique of what the writer believed to be the poor judgment and hypocrisy of society follows the travels of petit-bourgeois anti-hero Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I and the African jungle to America and Paris.