The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the
nightmare of London's underworld during the years of World War I.
In this distressing setting, he meets pimps and prostitutes,
pawnbrokers and magicians, policemen and arsonists. He sees social
and physiological decomposition as these processes unfold along
parallel lines of development. The illusions of existence are
nakedly exposed. The narrative erupts in Celine's characteristic
elliptical style. His splintered sentences and scatology reflect
his fury at the fragmentation of experience and at his own
impotence in the face of it. Out of his rage, he forces the
meaninglessness back on itself, and the exuberance of his struggle
triumphs in the comic exaggeration of satire. Ultimately, his
subject is not death but life, and he responds to it by a
strengthened commitment to the sensual and concrete. His
hallucinatory world is so vividly realized that it does, indeed,
challenge the reality of the reader's more conventional world.
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