![]() ![]() It's obscene, rock-bottom laughter, disabused of all idealism, that provides the tonic Céline speaks of. The blackest comedies can baffle readers not trained, or just unwilling, to recognise the comic in human extremis. But, the interest of those he influenced aside, Céline’s novel remains as readable and vital today as it was in the 1930s. But the influences do not stop there: one cannot help but appreciate the palpable influence that the author's anti-war invective and defence of cowardice had on Joseph Heller's Yossarian and Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim respectively. He wasn't the first French writer to use a colloquial style, but he was the first to use it so relentlessly and powerfully, to create a brand, the rant, whether it was delirious, lyrical or raging.Ĭéline’s expletive-laden, first-person narration influenced Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski and Beat poetry. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Journey to the End of the Night are 9780811223614, 0811223612 and the print ISBNs are 9780811216548, 0811216543. Cline, or Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, to give him the name under which he was born and long practiced medicineapparently, very conscientiously, in the Paris suburb of Clichyis the. Born in the shadow of entrenched realism and naturalism, Céline ripped up the textbook. Journey to the End of the Night is written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by New Directions. ![]()
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