Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night Audiobook

Written by Journey to the End of the Night
Read by David Colacci
Format: MP3
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Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 08-23-16
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio

Publisher’s summary

Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every minute 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 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 listeners by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel’s inevitable, sad conclusion.

©1952 Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Translation copyright 1983 by Ralph Manheim. Afterword copyright 2006 by William T. Vollmann (P)2016 Tantor