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Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Dalkey Archive Press, $13.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-56478-142-0
Celine's autobiographical and hallucinatory novel about the chaos of Europe at the end of WWII. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 09/02/1996
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