Journey to the End of the Night
Author | : Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2006-05-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780811223614 |
ISBN-13 | : 0811223612 |
Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Download or read book Journey to the End of the Night written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.