Rigadoon
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline ; introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; translated by Ralph Manheim.
Contributors: Manheim, Ralph, 1907-
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Series: French literature series; French literature series (Normal, Ill.)
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Normal, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.; Physicians -- Fiction.
Description: Completed the day before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Celine's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath. Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after finding himself on the losing side of World War II.

The train rides that encompass the novel are filled with madness and mercy, as Celine, a physician, aids refugees while ignoring his own medical needs.
Notes: The third of a trilogy, the title of the first being Castle to Castle, and that of the second North.