Journey to the End of the Night
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When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-Century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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Journey to the End of the Night,Louis-Ferdinand Celine,Ralph Manheim,New Directions Publishing Corporation,0811208478,Fiction - General,Literary,Science Fiction,French,Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -
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