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by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Author), Ralph Manheim (Translator) "Here's how it started ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd; 3rd Revised edition edition (26 Sep 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0714541397
  • ISBN-13: 978-0714541396
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.4 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 127,400 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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; in French colonial Africa; in the USA - where he
worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit - and later as a young
doctor in a working class suburb in Paris. The novel gives a picture of
those years as seen by an underdog.

Celine is very much the product of his age and was particularly marked -
like so may other writers - by the senseless carnage of the First World
War.

Celine's disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the mess that man has
made of society and of his own environment lies behind the bitterness and
bile that distinguishes his writing and gives it its force. This is
exemplified in the superb portraits of mainly ordinary human beings coping
with their lives as best they can; caught in poverty or their obsessions -
hindered from evading traps of their own making by ignorance and
prejudice.

This is the only complete translation of the novel available in English. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



About the Author

Celine is one of the most controversial writers of the twentieth
century, a writer who mixed realism with imaginative fantasy, and like his
contemporary Henry Miller, who is much compared to him, an iconoclast who
shocked and frightened many of his readers. Celine, the pen name of L.F.
Destouches, was a Doctor in poor Parisian districts whose experience of the
misery and chicanery of the poor gave him a jaundiced view of humanity that
he poured into prose, that is comic, as well as often frightening and
obscene. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Starts in the gutter and keeps sinking, a grim masterpiece., 20 Oct 2000
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This review is from: Journey to the End of the Night (Hardcover)
A French globe trotting Dr becomes embroilled in the Paris subculture, the more he struggles to suceed the deeper he sinks, until the only way to find peace is to embrace 'the night', and give himself over to it. Rejection, dejection, slavery and depravity become everyday events for the young doctor in his journey to the end of the night. A dark story full of wit and the blackest humour, it will make you itch, scratch, laugh and weep. A sobering tale with a bottle of Pernod waiting in the wings.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling Power, 20 Aug 2001
"From up high where I was, youcould shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick,the whole lot of them. I hadn't the nerve to tell them so in thedaytime, to their face, but up there it was safe. "Help!Help!" I shouted, just to see if it would have any effect onthem. None whatsoever. Those people were pushing life and night andday in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their ownnoise prevents them from hearing anything else. They couldn't careless. The bigger and taller the city, the less they care. Take it fromme. I've tried. It's a waste of time." --from Journey to the Endof the Night

Journey is very much what it sounds like -- a looselyautobiographical wandering that starts with the author enlistingalmost by accident to fight in WWI. He doesn't waste time describingthe war as being a giant, immoral waste of everyone's time and life,really, with thesoldier's main mission of the day being little morethan looking for a place to eat without getting his head shot off. Andto treat it as anything more than that, Celine suggests, is somethingof a waste of time: What's more important to any discussion of warthan its inherent stupidity? The same, it seems, goes for the rest ofthe story -- the basic undercurrent of the story is the world's coreidiocity and how you deal with it (if you choose to). Bardamu,Celine's alter ego, heads for the USA and back, into the slums ofParis and the Congo, and never manages to escape the stupidity andbrutality of the men around him. It's not a story of escape,butunderstanding, you do what you can with what you have. Soon the onlyway to keep the rest of the world at bay is to use the terror tacticsof those around you in reverse... and of course, it's only a matter oftime before that backfires as well...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing, 19 Oct 2005
I live in Ireland in 2005, it's funny how our own corrupt, drunken, unsympathetic and acquisitive little country bears no fundamental difference from the world as described by Celine. Far from being depressed by this knowledge I find it liberating, I am confirmed in my view that human nature remains constant, change is slow and the semblance of civilisation is but a illusion manufactured and promulgated by a weak and spineless media.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Worth Reading..
Epic, descriptive, but large portions of not much unfortunately.
Miller did better with "cancer.." though celine came first and was highly influential. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Nj Peel

4.0 out of 5 stars Slimy goodness for the stinking proletariat, open your maws and eat literature!
To read books like Journey or Death on Credit to works like Ulysses is to think of the sound the words make in your mind. Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2006 by Useless Article

5.0 out of 5 stars Irrefutable
This books is an opus of the last century, and in truth is the finest book I have read. Issues of style, content and humanity all make this one of the best books. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2006 by L. Heaney

5.0 out of 5 stars Hubris
To imagine that we have somehow "transcended" the deathly message of "Journey" ... that we have, in the intervening years since its writing, outgrown its critique ... Read more
Published on 17 Jul 2004 by Clement Wether

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Fiction
Don't begin this book expecting a wild melange of colloquial rants - Celine is hilariously articulate. The genius of this work lies in its utter cynicism (i.e. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2002 by rustyjames

2.0 out of 5 stars Historically Notable But A Stale Read Today
One of the problems with reading revolutionary books long after their initial publication is that they often don't seem so, well... revolutionary. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2001 by A. Ross

2.0 out of 5 stars Lifeless translation of a great masterpiece
Celine is a great stylist. He writes with fluent, slangy vehemency. The energy of the language makes the original a joy to read, however black the subject matter. Read more
Published on 24 Jul 2001 by R. H. Chandler

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievably brilliant style.....oozes dazzling talent...not
Celine is a master story teller..autobiographical..pessimist..cynic...his writing style is emotion personified in a constantly over the top ( seemingly) ranting blast at the world... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2000 by M. G. Ross

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