Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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.
5.0
23.10.2025
Fuad Arslan
Great book
5.0
10.05.2023
It should be a bedside book for those who love this category. I loved the book so much that I can't describe it. I was sad when it was over. I will read it again soon.
5.0
20.04.2023
Journey To The End If The Night first published in 1932, is one of the greatest novels of twentieth century. It could be said that without Cèline there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski no Beat poets.
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