About the book: 2023 / The first Russian edition of the novel "War" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine is offered to the attention of the domestic reader, the manuscript of which was sensationally discovered in the summer of 2021 along with three other Selin manuscripts, considered hopelessly lost until that moment. “War” certainly occupies a central place among these finds. This novel, which Céline worked on immediately after the publication of Journey to the End of Night (1932), fills the most important gap for understanding his work: being at the front during the First World War, being seriously wounded and undergoing a long recovery in a military hospital. “War” is the only work by Selin where these events were fully and completely reflected. A cruel time of loss of illusions, all shades of human baseness and hypocrisy, the death of comrades in arms, finding new friends in the person of neighbors in the ward, the struggle for survival, pain, horror , hopelessness, loneliness, hatred, sex, love, a series of tragic events that constantly turn into farce, evil fate and miraculous salvation through the eyes of the main genius of world literature of the 20th century. It's hard to imagine a book more relevant to our day..