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Journey to the end of the night by louisferdinand celine. Louis ferdinand celines revulsion and anger at what he. I gathered the material for journey to the end of the night. Nov 27, 2012 journey to the end of the night louis ferdinand celine, john h. Wear to the extremities of the jacket chipping to the head of the jacket. But, the interest of those he influenced aside, celines novel remains as readable and. This semiautobiographical work follows the adventures of ferdinand bardamu in the first world war, colonial africa, the united states and the poor suburbs of paris where he works as a doctor.
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Jun 06, 20 in journey to the end of the night, he grabs you by the back of the neck, shoves your face in it and doesnt let go. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 453 pages and is available in paperback format. Published in 1932, it is an autobiographical novel that is told in firstperson by a character named ferdinand bardamu. When you buy books using these links the internet archive may earn a small commission. Jun 02, 2006 louisferdinand celine s revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. His first novel journey to the end of the night 1932 won the prix renaudot but divided critics due to the authors pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style. Pdf journey to the end of the night book by louisferdinand. Journey to the end of the night audiobook by louis. Celine s masterpiececolloquial, polemic, hyperrealistic, boiling over with black humor celine s masterpiececolloquial, polemic, hyper realisticboils over with bitter humor and revulsion at societys idiocy and hypocrisy. Louisferdinand celine s revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every minute of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, journey to the end of the night is a literary symphony. Told in the first person by celine s fictional alter ego bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the authors own experiences during the first world war, in french colonial africa, in the usa and, later, as a young doctor in a workingclass suburb in.
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