North

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.
novel North (1960 ) - the second part of the post -war trilogy of Selin (“From the Castle to the Castle” (1957), “Rigodon” (1969)), in which Selin talks about his misadventures at the end of the war. Selin and his comrades in misfortune (Lily"s wife, actor Le Vigan and Cat Buber) go from Baden-Baden drowning to luxury to the destroyed Berlin, and then further to the north-to East Prussia, to Tsornhof, the estate controlled by the madman inhabited by the Poles , Berlin prostitutes, prisoners, refugees ... Selin calls himself a “modest chronicle”, but, in fact, describes his wanderings through the destroyed and doomed to the defeat of Germany, almost like Dante described the journey through the circles of hell