I 'm not sure if it is an apt testament to his novel, but I was saddened by the discovery that Pierre Siniac had passed away. It should be noted that it was on the back of the novel, that I discovered this mortality. My stupidity often baffles me. I suppose that such is the point of being stupid.

Likely 4.5 stars, I would've swept through it in three days had I not switched gears with Shah of Shahs and then experienced a subsequent absence of focus. Waiting in line at a book sale last night, I thought it due time to return to The Collaborators which is a farce stuffed into a tragedy. The tragedy being The Occupation and the subsequent revisionism of the nationwide Resistance myth. Oh well. Rather than being a novel length homage to Celine, I found The Collaborators to be an admirable updating of Balzac's Lost Illusions.
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