For nearly 100 pages, celine is very reassembled: the humiliations of the post war his stolen manuscripts, years of prison ... all this gives an early chopped book, in which Celine doting and plague against all (including easily identifiable characters nowadays).
Then little by little, is favored by a fever, celine calms, his style becomes more fluid and it shows us vividly epic adventure of "prisoners" Sigmaringen. All pundits coutoie there is collaboration and we learn a lot of tasty details.
So what is the final work a contrasting, memorable, that does not leave unscathed the player.