Journey to the End of the Night
Told in the first person and based on his own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa and in America, where he worked for while at the Ford factory in Detroit, and later as a young doctor in a working class suburb in Paris, it gives a picture of those years as seen by an...
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Told in the first person and based on his own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa and in America, where he worked for while at the Ford factory in Detroit, and later as a young doctor in a working class suburb in Paris, it gives a picture of those years as seen by an underdog. Celine's disgust with human folly, malice and greed comes over in superb portraits of mainly ordinary human beings coping with their lives as best they can, caught in their poverty or their obsessions, hindered by ignorance and prejudice from evading traps of their own making.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811208475 (0811208478)
Publish date: February 1st 1988
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages no: 446
Edition language: English
Originally, I thought about writing an eloquent review of this book, but intentions do not always come to bear fruit. The longer I think about it, the less apt I am to do it, so, instead of procrastinating, I'm just going to 'wing it' live.Here it goes. I first borrowed this book from a library, but...
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In the spirit of Celine’s book I will try to curse in this review. I think he would approve. Well, shit. The bastards are out to get you. The question is, which bastards. This book, this stream of piss, is just like piss. No, re...
De la adolescencia a la adultez , diez años desde la primera que lo leí , mi concepción de este libro cambio abismalmente . Igual le dejo un cuatro por la nostalgia casi dolorosa que me provocó el releerlo . Por los viejos tiempos , A este cascarrabias que quise tanto cuando sabia bastante menos de ...
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