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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. Told in the first person, the novel is based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA - where he worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit - 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 it its force.
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Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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- Released
- 2012
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 450
- ISBN10
- 1847492401
- ISBN13
- 9781847492401
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Philosophical Topics, Classics, France, USA, Africa, French Literature, World War I (1914–1918), Journey, Narration, Debut, Irony, Colonialism, Night, Interwar Period, World War, Sarcasm, Picaresque Novels
- First published
- 1932
- Original title
- Voyage au bout de la nuit
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- 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. Told in the first person, the novel is based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA - where he worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit - 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 it its force.