Rigodon

Louis-Ferdinand Selin (1894-1961) is a classic of literature of the 20th century, a writer with a tragic fate, having a reputation as a actress, anarchist, cynic and an extreme individualist. The author of the scandalously famous novels “Travel to the end of the night” (1932), “Death on Credit” (1936) and other, as well as no less scandalous racist and anti -Semitic pamphlets. Accused of cooperation with the German occupation authorities during the Second World War, Selin was forced to flee to Germany, and then to Denmark, where he spends several post -war years: first in prison, and then in exile ...
Rigodon (1969 ) - the last part of the post -war trilogy (“From the castle to the castle” (1957), “North” (1969)) and at the same time the last novel of the writer, who saw the light only after his death. In this novel, in an expressive form, in accordance with the name, in the rhythm of the Burlesque folk dance of Rigodon, Selin describes his wanderings through the destroyed flame of Germany on the eve of the collapse of the Third Reich. From Rostok to Ulm and Hamburg, and further in Denmark, on trains, scored by soldiers, prisoners and refugees ... Rigodon is one of the most tragic books of world literature, which became a kind of spiritual testament of Selin