Coming just after his masterpieces Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, Mea Culpa is C???line's scathing denunciation of Soviet communism, written after a personal visit to that "worker's paradise" in the 1930s. In his inimitable, blistering style, C???line strips bare not only the communist experiment but also all other modern systems, showing them for what they are: illusions destined to fail because they are based on false ideas about the nature of Man. At a time when many other writers ...
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Coming just after his masterpieces Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, Mea Culpa is C???line's scathing denunciation of Soviet communism, written after a personal visit to that "worker's paradise" in the 1930s. In his inimitable, blistering style, C???line strips bare not only the communist experiment but also all other modern systems, showing them for what they are: illusions destined to fail because they are based on false ideas about the nature of Man. At a time when many other writers and intellectuals were fawning over the Soviet Union and the ideas of Marx and Lenin, C???line was quick to see them for what they really were, and Mea Culpa now stands as a prescient and accurate statement about the true nature of communism in the modern world. Also included in this volume is The Life and Work of Semmelweis, C???line's first book. This meditation on the heroic and tragic physician who pioneered antisepsis in medicine gives us a key to understanding C???line's vision of life and all of his subsequent work. Written in a more conventional style than his later books, C???line's genius for trenchant observation is nonetheless fully apparent.
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