Journey to the end of the night

Journey to the end of the night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1894-1961

Book - 2006

When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.

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Subjects
French fiction > 20th century.
Published
New York : New Directions 2006, 1983.
Language
English
French
Main Author
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1894-1961 (-)
Other Authors
Ralph Manheim, 1907-1992 (-)
Item Description
Reprint. Originally published: 1983. With new afterword.
Physical Description
453 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780811216548
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Review by Library Journal Review

Written in Celine's native French in 1932 and released in English 20 years later, this brutal story follows Bardamu, a man at odds with society, from the blood-soaked trenches of World War I to Africa and the United States to, ultimately, a failed medical career in Paris. For the literary set. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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