The Wartime Trilogy (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis-Ferdinand Destouches
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: November, 1944, to March, 1945
- Setting: Various German cities
- Principal Characters: Ferdinand, Lili, Le Vigan
- 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
The Novels
This trilogy of novels, Castle to Castle, North, and Rigadoon, informally known as the wartime trilogy, traces the journey of the protagonist, Ferdinand, from Paris to Copenhagen in the wake of the collapse of the German war effort. Denounced as a collaborator for his anti-Semitic writings and consequently threatened with death by the Resistance, Ferdinand flees his Montmartre apartment to seek the relative political safety of Denmark. Earlier, he hid money from royalties there to provide for such an occurrence. Each volume of the trilogy begins...
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