Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, pen name of Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, is best known for his works Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), and Mort à crédit (Death on the Installment Plan). His highly innovative writing style using Parisian vernacular, vulgarities, and intentionally peppering ellipses throughout the text was used to evoke the cadence of speech.Louis-Ferdinand Destouches was raised in Paris, in a flat over the shopping arcade where his mother had a lace store. His parents were poor (father a clerk, mother a seamstress). After an education that included stints in Germany and England, her performed a variety of dead-end jobs before he enlisted in the French cavalry in 1912 two years before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. While serving on the Western Front he was wounded in the head and suffered serious injuries – a crippled arm and headaches that plagued him all his life – but also winning a medal of honour. Released from military service, he studied medicine and emigrated to the USA where he worked as a staff doctor at the newly build Ford plant in Detroit before returning to France and establishing a medical practice among the Parisian poor. Their experiences are featured prominently in his fiction.Although he is often cited as one of the most influential and greatest writers of the twentieth century, he is certainly a controversial figure. After embracing fascism, he published three antisemitic pamphlets, and vacillated between support and denunciation of Hitler. He fled to Germany and Denmark in 1945 where he was imprisoned for a year and declared a national disgrace. He then received amnesty and returned to Paris in 1951.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Henry Miller, William Burroughs, and Charles Bukowski have all cited him as an important influence.

出版者:New Directions

作者:Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

页数:464

译者:Ralph Manheim

出版时间:2006-5-17

价格:USD 17.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780811216548

图书标签:小说CélineLouis-FerdinandCéline法国黑暗夜法国文学文学外国文学

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, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.

读后感

夜晚。 上空星星斑点，笼罩在城市的星星斑点。无雨无风也无云。一到晚上就想起那个传说，人死后会成为天空中的一颗星星。地上的人看到星星会记忆起自己认识的不认识的很多人。但记忆不是一直的，星星却一直在，一直在春夏秋冬的夜里闪烁，看到看不到都在闪烁。很远很远的星星经...  

«祖国母亲已准备好接受来自全国各地的献祭，她老人家在殉道者的选择上变得尤为慷慨大方，英雄不问出处，只要是我国的骨血，一概笑纳，统统封圣。且看今朝，举国上下找不出一个不配披坚执锐的士兵！这都不算完！我们连不配吞枪子儿的兵都没有！“号外号外！凡我国公民，皆享...

这本书我比较欣赏两个方面，一个是语言的营造能力，这里的语言风格有着自己的特色，有些放荡的口语，令人感受到随处鄙视无趣漫无活力的语言格力，这种语言风格跟想表达的内容很好地结合起来，让人感觉置身其境，没有阅读的隔阂，跟网络上的那种肆无忌惮的语言是完全不同...  

此书是流浪体小说。这个体裁形式在西方小说史上可谓源远流长，从《堂吉诃德》《老实人》到《好兵帅克》。经典层出不穷。而此书也是经典之一。 　　作品相对于其他的同体裁小说有一特点，便是采用主人公与另一人物鲁滨逊明暗两条线。通过主人公的经历再不时夹杂着鲁滨逊的重...  

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语言中那喷涌而出的愤怒之力啊，愤青跟文学巨匠只有一线之隔

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