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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page 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 of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America, where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.… (més)
Con Viaje al fin de la noche, Céline se situó en una posición de privilegio en las letras francesas, de la que ninguna consideración extraliteraria lograría desbancarlo. La prosa amarga y quebradiza de Céline, su característico ritmo acelerado, el lirismos descarnado con que construyó a sus personajes o la altiva mueca con que contempló la existencia son claves indispensables para comprender la literatura europea y latinoamericana actual.
Delirant i cru, mostra tota la lletgesa de la condició humana en un llenguatge a voltes fangós i confús. Sincer, principalment sincer, il·luminant els racons més foscos, fent-te caure la vena dels ulls, destruint sense misericòrdia els mites romàntics sobre la masculinitat valerosa del soldat a la primera guerra mundial o l'exploració de l'Àfrica. No en deixa ni un de viu, els repassa a tots de dalt a baix, sense complexes. La crua animalitat de l'especie humana és desoladora i desperta a l'hora un somriure torçat i sarcàstic. La literatura també pot destruir. ( )
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Our life is a journey through winter and night we look for our way in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards 1793)
Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littre says so, and he's never wrong.
And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes.
It's on the other side of life.
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page 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 of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America, where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.
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