With typical immodesty, Cline felt he was robbed of the Prix Goncourt (won by the.
From Bach to Debussy there’s a big difference. They saw how you really lunch on the grass. They took their painting one fine day and went to paint outside. Product Details About the Author Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Published in 1932, it made him an instant literary star. A fashion that caused a scandal with the appearance of Journey. It's obscene, rock-bottom laughter, disabused of all idealism, that provides the tonic Céline speaks of. Journey to the End of Night is Cline's first novel.
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. Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 4. Clines assessment of humanity is uncompromisingly nihilistic, and through the barely endurable experiences of the writers fictional alter ego, Ferdinand. Born in the shadow of entrenched realism and naturalism, Céline ripped up the textbook.
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