Journey to the End of the Night
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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.
Journey to the End of the Night
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.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780811223614 |
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Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Publication date: | 02/14/2014 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 464 |
Sales rank: | 952,954 |
File size: | 1 MB |
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