After telling his passage by Sigmaringen (Dun castle the other), Celine returns to North on the previous steps, washing in first leads from Baden-Baden to Berlin ("Berlin? Quune porridge ruins"), then in a village Brandenburg, a hundred kilometers north of the capital of the Reich.
To have taken a long language course in Germany as a teenager, author of Journey to the end of the night is not doing too badly in German. At ruse and dastuce, he manages somehow to pull out of the game in a deadly dangerous situation where rumors circulate uncontrollable and where everyone is suspicious of everyone.
Through a Bochie (sic) in full débine, and according dimprobables meetings (Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma), the small circle of "emaciated penailleux" that it forms with Lili (Lollipop), the actor Robert Le Vigan and cat Bebert (" the Registry ") is progressing under the bombs" flying fortresses ", that they are racked by daily obsession in search of food. And sleeping more often on straw.
Nothing in the linear narrative, true work in progress as we follow over the shoulder of the chronicler, who does not lack sadresser directly to us ("There I distract you, I mamuse"), juggling with the times. Anything goes: the trouble with Gaston Gallimard (Achilles, in the book), a memory of the Great War, drowning of a cripple in a manure pit, an orgy in a castle in the abandonment, a project with BD roger nimier ( , he is seen!), a funeral, etc., etc.
Funny, earthy, burlesque, cheeky, inventive as hell, and poet, Celine professes: "Anarchist am, was, still, and do not care about many opinions ...!"
