Leben und Werk des Philipp Ignaz Semmelweis

The great Austro-Hungarian gynecologist, Ignaz Semmelweis, fascinated Céline early on. Semmelweis, the medical revolutionary who ran desperately against the ignorance of his contemporaries, laid the foundations for overcoming the terrible puerperal fever that cost the lives of thousands of women. His struggle and passionate life, which ended in despair and madness, is chronicled by Céline in expressive, nervous and dramatic haste, leaving the reader breathless. While almost all of Céline's work has been available in German, this masterpiece is being presented again for the first time since 1937.