Celine Journey To The End Of The Night

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714541396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to the End of the Night written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.

Author : Thomas Ligotti
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525504915
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conspiracy against the Human Race written by Thomas Ligotti and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world." His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work.

Author : Louis Ferdinand Céline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847496348
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death on Credit written by Louis Ferdinand Céline and published by . This book was released on 2017-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Damian Catani
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178914468X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis-Ferdinand Céline written by Damian Catani and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language biography in more than two decades of the French writer, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Céline’s groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex life: he rose from humble beginnings to worldwide literary fame, then dramatically fell from grace only to return, belatedly, to the limelight. Céline’s subversive writing remains fresh and urgent today, despite his controversial political views and inflammatory pamphlets that threatened to ruin his reputation. The first English-language biography of Céline in more than two decades, this book explores new material and reminds us why the author belongs in the pantheon of modern greats.

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200189
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guignol's Band written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Guignol's Band, first published in France in 1943, Céline explores the horror of a disordered world.

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564784490
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Professor Y written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So begins the imaginary interview that comprises this novel. Professor Y, the interviewing academic, asks questions that allow Céline, a character in his own book, the chance to rail against convention and defend his idiosyncratic methods. In the course of their outrageous interplay, Céline comes closer to defining and justifying his poetics than in any of his other novels. But this is more than just an interview. As the book moves forward, Professor Y reveals his real identity and the characters travel through the streets of Paris toward a bizarre climax that parodies the author, the critic, and, most of all, the establishment.

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 9781564781420
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate man frantically flees France in the closing months of World War II.

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Cäline
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803264243
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fable for Another Time written by Louis-Ferdinand Cäline and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tale of a man imprisoned and reviled by his own countrymen, the Fable follows its character's decline from virulent hatred to near madness as a result of his violent frustration with the hypocrisy and banality of his fellow human beings. In part because of the story's clear link to his own case - and because of the legal and political difficulties this presented - Celine was compelled to push his famously elliptical, brilliantly vitriolic language to new and extraordinary extremes in Fable for Another Time. The resulting linguistic and stylistic innovation make this work stand out as one of the most original and revealing literary undertakings of its time."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Victor Serge
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174275
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unforgiving Years written by Victor Serge and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer’s works. The book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an immense mural or the movements of a symphony. In the first, D, a lifelong revolutionary who has broken with the Communist Party and expects retribution at any moment, flees through the streets of prewar Paris, haunted by the ghosts of his past and his fears for the future. Part two finds D’s friend and fellow revolutionary Daria caught up in the defense of a besieged Leningrad, the horrors and heroism of which Serge brings to terrifying life. The third part is set in Germany. On a dangerous assignment behind the lines, Daria finds herself in a city destroyed by both Allied bombing and Nazism, where the populace now confronts the prospect of total defeat. The novel closes in Mexico, in a remote and prodigiously beautiful part of the New World where D and Daria are reunited, hoping that they may at last have escaped the grim reckonings of their modern era. A visionary novel, a political novel, a novel of adventure, passion, and ideas, of despair and, against all odds, of hope, Unforgiving Years is a rediscovered masterpiece by the author of The Case of Comrade Tulayev.

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 9781847492449
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Bridge written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature. London Review of Books