Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
English | May 17, 2006 | ISBN: 0811216543, 9780811223614 | True EPUB | 464 pages | 0.8 MB
English | May 17, 2006 | ISBN: 0811216543, 9780811223614 | True EPUB | 464 pages | 0.8 MB
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.