The Wartime Trilogy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis-Ferdinand Destouches
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Biographical
- Time of Work: 1944-1945 and 1957-1961
- Setting: France, Germany, and Denmark
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Memory, France or French people, Escapes, 1940’s, World War II, Doctors, Anti-Semitism, Denmark or Danish people, Hallucinations or illusions, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people
- Locales: France, Germany, Denmark
Characters Discussed
North, 1960
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (lwee-fehr- dee-NAH[N] say-LEEN), the narrator in all three novels; in this one, he focuses on his first adventures as he flees France, threatened with prosecution for collaborating with the Germans. His training as a medical doctor serves as a passport to hoped-for safety. Embittered by misfortune, he relentlessly attacks his perceived persecutors, seeing himself as a martyr, hated because he dares to tell the truth—that humankind is depraved and doomed.
Lili (lee-LEE), Céline’s wife and...
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