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An extravaganza for another time, a novel written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline during his imprisonment in 1946-1947 for collaborationism, can be considered to some extent a key stage in his oeuvre. Using his unique style and writerly perspective on the events that shook the very foundations of the twentieth century, Céline once again raises the eternal literary and moral issues in his polemical manner. This book can be considered a kind of confession of Selin the collaborator, Selin the traitor, Selin the writer, and Selin the citizen, who, as always, is in confrontation with society, and at the same time, this novel is the quintessence of Selin's work.

In June 1940, France was occupied by Germany, and in the spring of 1944, on the eve of liberation, the Allies bombed strategic sites in the occupied territory, including the Paris marshalling yard near Montmartre, where Céline lived at the time. Two years later, imprisoned in Copenhagen awaiting a Danish decision to extradite him to France, Céline decided to make this event the subject of his novel. Creating a story about the night of the bombing, Céline used his imagination and unique writing style to the fullest extent possible, becoming the only novelist of his time to recreate this event in literature.