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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
Journey to the End of the Night
Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor.
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.
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
