by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435011730
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Immerse yourself in the apocalypse of Nazi Germany with 'Norte', the penultimate novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In this second volume of the 'North Trilogy', Céline masterfully describes the decline of a society, the ridicule of the aristocracy, and the disorientation of French refugees lost in a world on the brink of collapse. Accompany Céline, his wife Lili, and actor Le Vigan in their exile, as they seek refuge in a castle full of delicacies and then on a property ruled by a madman. An incandescent description of the disappearance of a society, where Céline's pen illuminates the darkness of war and human fragility.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
