Journey to the End of the Night -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Paperback

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.

Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/17/2006
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780811216548

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2006 pg. 111