Journey to the end of the night is a modernist novel by louisferdinand celine, first published in the french language in 1932 by parisian publishing house editions denoel et steele. Listen to journey to the end of the night by louisferdinand. In short, journey to the end of the night, and each word of it, constitute the literary equivalent of dark chocolates for those seeking to maintain maximum melancholia and perfect a plenary pessimistic perspective. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Journey to the end of the night is an autobiographical novel. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
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. The tale of a son and his father separately plotting to escape the desolation of their lives in the lurid underworld of brazils sex industry. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are ferdinand bardamu, leon robinson. Journey to the end of night celine i really struggled with this one and it felt much longer than its 600 odd pages i didnt really engage with the main character and that is a real problem in a first person narrative, i also felt the story jumped about and wasnt really a consistent story add to that the fact i found most of it boring this was not a great read for me.
In it, you encounter the refreshingly misanthropic bardamu, who leaves france after wwi and travels to africa and america before coming back to france and the end of the night. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. Louisferdinand celines revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Louis ferdinand celine, david colacci, tantor audio. A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. This was for an english project, but i wasnt able to use a youtube video because its blocked. Celines masterpiececolloquial, polemic, hyperrealistic, boiling over with black humor. Listen to journey to the end of the night by louisferdinand celine available from rakuten kobo. First published in 1932, journey to the end of the night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in french literature. David colacci the story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petitbourgeois and largely autobiographical antihero, bardamu, from the trenches of world war i, to the african jungle, to. Journey begins with celines protagonist, ferdinand bardamu, shooting the breeze with his buddy in 1910. The first edition of the novel was published in 1932, and was written by louisferdinand celine. It is a semiautobiographical work centered on the life and travels of cynical antihero ferdinand bardamu, set over several decades of bardamus life.
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Celines alter ego, bardamu, undergoes the idiocy of world war i and then becomes a doctor attempting to care for broken and diseased people after the war. The title is a reference to louisferdinand celines novel journey to the end of the night. Download journey to the end of the night audiobook by. So this is an audiobook for the book night by elie wiesel. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Download or stream journey to the end of the night by louisferdinand celine. His classic books include journey to the end of the night, death on the installment plan, london bridge, north, rigadoon, conversations with professor y, castle to castle, and normance. May 17, 2006 first published in 1932, journey to the end of the night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in french literature. Journey to the end of the night by louisferdinand celine. Journey to the end of the night is the debut studio album by the norwegian progressive metal band green carnation, released by the end records on 28 may 2000.
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Ralph manheim 19071992 was an american translator of german and french literature, as well as occasional works from dutch, polish and hungarian. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are ferdinand bardamu. Journey to the end of the night san bernardino county. A black cloud followed me for a week after reading this. Hes sort of a contemporary and older brother of some of the characters in henry miller and bukowski. 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. It tells the story of bardamu and his doppelganger robinson in a grotesque journey through life. Goodreads members who liked journey to the end of the nigh. Journey to the end of the night audible audio edition.
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