Normance

(French Literature series). The last of Celine's (1894-1961) novels to be translated into English is an account of an air attack on Paris during WWII. It depicts a hallucinatory, altered space inwhich human aggressions, appetites, & suspicions come boiling to the surface in preposterous dimensions. A frantic narrator, in search of complicity, relates the story of an apoalyptic ballet that leaves reason and order in shreds, asbombing turns Montmartre into an underworld teeming with dirty deeds, while the narrator resists the inhumanity with animal desperation and robust hilarity. 328p.