Nord, Paperback Book, By: Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Celine in the midst of burning Germany. With his companions in misfortune,-his wives Lili, the actor Le Vigan, and the cat Bebert-, here he is in Baden-Baden in a strange palace where caviar, bouillabaisse and champagne count more than bombardments, then in Berlin in ruins, and finally in Zornhof in a huge property ruled by a madman. It is a gigantic food tragedy, the dimensions of a collapsing country, experienced by the collapsing one, lived by the one who calls himself "the old tramp in the shit".