Journey to the End of the Night Journey to the End of the Night

Journey to the End of the Night

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Publisher Description

Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor

Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic—boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy: Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of cruelty and violence that hurtles through the improbable travels of the petit bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu: from the trenches of WWI, to the African jungle, to New York, to the Ford Factory in Detroit, and finally to life in Paris as a failed doctor. Ralph Manheim’s pitch-perfect translation captures Céline’s savage energy, and a dynamic afterword by William T. Vollmann presents a fresh, furiously alive take on this astonishing novel.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2006
May 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
New Directions
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
2.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Dante Modaffari ,

Behold, the master

This is the novel. There is nothing quite like it, no other author that can sing, taunt, demean and cheer. Céline can write about the aristocracy of a woman's leg or the idiocy of jingoism, all with brilliance, with éclat, with a voice that commands your attention. What makes Céline great is not that he writes of reality, but the hallucinations provoked by reality.

khloae wisdo prud ,

new title

this copy is different from the original which was about approaching time this one is more about getting it greased so the two translations are different but the first one is deffinetely better vives las france vives las france you know is the french toast going to go down

lee chew ,

beautifully written but deeply tragic

despite the bleakness of the story, because céline’s writing is so breathtakingly beautiful, so completely raw, so unsparingly truthful, it’s impossible not to respect his artistry. this is an absolutely amazing writer.

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