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Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Description for Journey to the End of the Night
Paperback. First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. This edition contains a foreword by John Banville. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Num Pages: 450 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 356. 450 pages, ill. First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. This edition contains a foreword by John Banville. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight: 348. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph.
First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine's disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives ... Read more
First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine's disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Classics
Number of pages
450
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Richmond, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847492401
SKU
V9781847492401
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About Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most controversial authors of the twentieth century, a writer who mixed realism with imaginative fantasy, and, like his contemporary Henry Miller, an iconoclast who shocked many of his readers. His experiences as a soldier during the First World War and as a physician treating the poor in the suburbs of Paris gave him a ... Read more
Reviews for Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night, first published in 1932, is one of the greatest novels of the 20th century... It could be said that without Celine there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski, no Beat poets.
John Banville The blackest comedies can baffle readers not trained, or just unwilling, to recognise ... Read more
John Banville The blackest comedies can baffle readers not trained, or just unwilling, to recognise ... Read more