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...
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. ...
It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified officials, their wives, mistresses, flunkies, and Nazi "protectors"--including Celine, his wife, their cat, and an actor friend--attempt to postpone the postwar reckoning under the constant threat of air raids and starvation. With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, Celine paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of human society and the human...
It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthi...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) is best known for his early novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932)--which Charles Bukowski described as the greatest novel of the past 2,000 years--and Death on the Installment Plan (1936), but this delirious, fanatical -biography- predates them both. The astounding yet true story of the life of Ignacz Semmelweis provided Celine with a narrative whose appalling events and bizarre twists would have lain beyond credibility in a work of pure fiction. Semmelweis, now regarded as the father of antisepsis, was the first to diagnose correctly...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) is best known for his early novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932)--which Charles Bukowski described ...
First published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, 'Guignol's Band' follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, people by prostitutes, pimps and schemers.
First published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, 'Guignol's Band' follows the narrator's meanderings through L...
First published in 1932, 'Journey to the End of the Night' is regarded as Celine's masterpiece. It is told in the first person and is based on his own experiences during the First World War.
First published in 1932, 'Journey to the End of the Night' is regarded as Celine's masterpiece. It is told in the first person and is based on his own...
The narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition), his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and whores and his affair with a baronet's 14-year-old daughter.
The narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition), hi...
