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.

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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...  

1 　　在开篇之前，说起路易—斐迪南•塞利纳，一定有这样绕不开的几个点，一个是他凭借自学中学课程通过大学考试，4年拿到医学博士学位，而这个自学还是在第一次世界大战中一边服兵役一边完成；一个是他在二战中辗转流离、出于人道主义在伪政府担任了几个月的医生，战后...  

如果按主人公的生活，将此书按战争中，战争后，分为两本，还真的是不错的选择。 全书中，整个前半本写得很精致，体现出作者的才华，语言尖刻，情节紧凑。 后半本，似乎没有什么主题，散乱，流水账似的生活，散光的语言微乎其微，反而降低了整本书的格调。 不论什么，在最好的时...  

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