As a young man, Louis-Ferdinand Céline signs up for the cavalry during World War I. The atrocities that he witnesses during his time here shape the way he sees the world for the rest of his life. His experiences in the war draw him to pacifism and nihilism. Drawn by heroism and nationalism, the young Céline finds only pointlessness and waste of human life. After the war, in which he approves of cowardice, Céline sets sail to Africa to work in the French colony of Cameroon. In this colony there is
What the narrator is really trying to do is convince himself that what happened was all right, so that he can accept it and move on. The narrator also uses irony when he uses the excerpt from the Death on the Installment Plan. In the passage, Celine wants the people to stop moving and freeze, in order to stop them from dying. However, what he doesn't realize is that if he freezes them, they will not be living either. The narrator is once again trying to convey to the reader the message that
Vienna were actually a kind of golden age for the Jews. Christian Socials never attacked the monarchy because the Hapsburg were a German house and had granted their German subject a certain predominance. Bagetelle pour un Massacre (1938) by Louis Ferdinand Celine went straight to the core and demanded the massacre of all Jews. In the Golden Age of Security, a section in the first part of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt discusses how the more the government lost in power and prestige, the less