SOURCE: "Fading Images: The Touristic Itinerary and Spatial Representation in Céline's German Trilogy," in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Foreign Literatures, Vol. XLVII, No. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 16-35.

In the following essay, Loselle examines the narrative presentation of time and space in Castle to Castle, North, and Rigadoon, and Céline's role as a chronicler of historical reality and postwar tourist.

Imagine, Amalia, you're sitting in a room screening a film and the projector jams. Right in the middle of a cross fade between scenes. You see double. The frozen images of the scene just past, and the not-quite formed images of the next scene. If you live in changing times, querida, you get two of everything (diplostathmos). You get Ayatollahs and video cassettes. The sexual revolution and the Moral Majority. You bottle Coca Cola in Athens and you load Ritz Crackers on a 747 cargo jet headed...