Journey to the end of the night
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Journey to the end of the night
(A New Directions book, 1036)
New Directions Book, 2006
- Other Title
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Voyage au bout de la nuit
- Uniform Title
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Voyage au bout de la nuit
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"An edition of Céline's Voyage au bout de la Nuit translated by John H.P. Marks was first published in a clothbound edition by New Directions in 1949, and as New Directions Paperback 84 in 1960"--T.p. verso
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Description
Celine'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 Celine'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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