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{ June 2022 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover image, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } eBook, 489 pages Paperback, 464 pages Published: 1932 Greatest Books (amalgamated list of best books) Translated from the French by: Ralph Manheim (1983) Afterword by: William T. Vollmann (2006) The dark side of "On the Road": instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life. 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,
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- Author
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim (translator)
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 1932
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811208475
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.24 / 5 (17,889 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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