Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894–1961) is a classic of 20th-century literature, a writer with a tragic fate, who has a reputation as a misanthrope, an anarchist, a cynic and an extreme individualist. Author of the notorious novels “Journey to the End of Night” (1932), “Death on Credit” (1936) and others, as well as no less scandalous racist and anti-Semitic pamphlets. Accused of collaborating with the German occupation authorities during the Second World War, Celine was forced to flee to Germany, and then to Denmark, where he spent several post-war years: first in prison, and then in exile... "Rigodon" (1969) - the last part post-war trilogy (“From Castle to Castle” (1957), “North” (1969)) and at the same time the writer’s last novel, which was published only after his death. In this novel, in an expressive form, in accordance with the title, in the rhythm of the burlesque folk dance rigaudon, Celine describes her wanderings through a destroyed Germany in flames on the eve of the collapse of the Third Reich. From Rostock to Ulm and Hamburg, and further to Denmark, on trains filled with soldiers, prisoners and refugees... “Rigodon” is one of the most tragic books of world literature, which became a kind of spiritual testament of Celine.