Journey to the End of the Night

Title: Journey to the End of the Night
Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
ISBN: 9780811216548
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 464
Section: Fiction | Classics
Publisher Description: 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.