Rigadoon

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Original title: Rigodon

Also published as: Rigodon

first published 1969 Schoenhof Foreign Books, 1987 paperback 307 pages

Folio Series — book 481

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...

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Rigadoon edition · 1997 · Dalkey Archive Press · 273 pages
Rigodon paperback · 1987 · French & European Pubns · 9780828836265
Rigodon paperback · 1987 · Schoenhof Foreign Books · 307 pages · 9782070364817
Rigodon paperback · 1987 · Schoenhof Foreign Books Inc · 9780685577226
Rigadoon edition · 1974 · Delacorte Press · 273 pages
Rigodon paperback · 1969 · Gallimard · 9782070268887

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