Journey to the End of the Night is a modernist novel by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, first published in the French language in 1932 by Parisian publishing house Éditions Denoël et Steele. It was Arthur Ganate[3] that made me speak up. I was amazed. The film is set in a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, Brazil, where the exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel.Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted to cocaine. ” ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night It is a semi-autobiographical work centered on the life and travels of cynical antihero Ferdinand Bardamu, set over several decades of Bardamu’s life, beginning at the outbreak of the First World War. Brendan was truly believably evil. Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960, New Directions edition, in English It is a race/chase through city streets at night. Journey to the End of the Night has a wonderful cast and an interesting premise. I'd never said a word. JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE Translated from the French by RALPH MANHEIM . Hi all,Well, the short answer is no.I found it really depressing and cynical. The film collapses into such a morass of cliché, confusion, and violence that it leaves you wondering why you bothered to take the journey with it. Their goal was to design a game that put players in the middle of a cinematic chase scene through a city at night. It's dream time. Journey begins with Céline’s protagonist, Ferdinand Bardamu, shooting the breeze with his buddy in 1910′s Paris. His classic books include Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, London Bridge, North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, Castle to Castle, and Normance. So we meet on the Place Clichy. Here's how it started. Audience Reviews for Journey to the End of the Night. Journey to the End of the Night, first published in 1932, is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century It could be said that without Céline there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski, no Beat poets. It was after breakfast. The city spreads out before you. He wants to Rushing from point to point, lit by the slow strobe of fluorescent buses and dark streets. Journey to the End of the Night is a free street game of epic proportion run by volunteer masterminds in cities around the world. From that starting point, however, its all downhill. --John Banville Born in the shadow of entrenched realism and naturalism, Céline ripped up the textbook. Ralph Manheim (1907-1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. 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