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Written in Celine's native French in 1932 and released in English 20 years later, this brutal story follows Bardamu, a man at odds with society, from the blood-soaked trenches of World War I to Africa and the United States to, ultimately, a failed medical career in Paris. For the literary set. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Philip Roth
"Céline is my Proust!"
The New York Times Book Review
"Céline showed me that it was possible to convey things that had heretofore seemed inaccessible."
Alfred Kazin
"An extraordinarily gifted writer, he writes like a lunging live wire, crackling and wayward, full of hidden danger."
James Laughlin
"Terrifying: enormously powerful and slashing, satiric, misanthropic—but what power of the imagination!"
John Banville
"One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. It could be said that without Céline there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski."
The New Yorker
"Teeming with disease, misanthropy, and dark comedy."
London Review of Books - John Sturrock
"The most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature."
The New York Times Book Review - Will Self
"This is the novel, perhaps more than any other, that inspired me to write fiction. Céline showed me that it was possible to convey things that had heretofore seemed inaccessible."
The Guardian - Andrew Hussey
"My favorite French classic has to be Journey to the End of the Night. It's an epic that takes you all around the world, but the center of the world is Paris, or Céline's delirious, slightly hallucinatory, incredibly poetic vision of it."
From the Publisher
"Céline showed me that it was possible to convey things that had heretofore seemed inaccessible. " ---New York Times
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"C line showed me that it was possible to convey things that had heretofore seemed inaccessible. " —New York Times
