{"product_id":"journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-9780811216548","title":"Journey to the End of the Night","description":"Céline's masterpiece--colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic--boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society's idiocy and hypocrisy: \u003cem\u003eJourney to the End of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary symphony of cruelty and violence that hurtles through the improbable travels of the petit bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu: from the trenches of WWI, to the African jungle, to New York, to the Ford Factory in Detroit, and finally to life in Paris as a failed doctor. Ralph Manheim's pitch-perfect translation captures Céline's savage energy, and a dynamic afterword by William T. Vollmann presents a fresh, furiously alive take on this astonishing novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCéline, Louis-Ferdinand:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eLouis-Ferdinand Céline\u003c\/strong\u003e (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Céline fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Condemned by default (1950) in France to one year of imprisonment and declared a national disgrace, Céline returned to France after his pardon in 1951, where he continued to write until his death. His classic books include \u003cem\u003eJourney to the End of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDeath on the Installment Plan\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLondon Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNorth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRigadoon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConversations with Professor Y\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCastle to Castle, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNormance\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eManheim, Ralph:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/strong\u003e (1907-1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. The PEN\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation, is named in honor of Manheim and his work.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVollmann, William T.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam T. Vollmann\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Atlas\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 1997 PEN Center West Award), \u003cem\u003eSeven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEurope Central\u003c\/em\u003e. His nonfiction includes \u003cem\u003eRising Up and Rising Down\u003c\/em\u003e which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003, and his novel \u003cem\u003eEurope Central\u003c\/em\u003e won the National Book Award in 2005.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593612464402,"sku":"9780811216548","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_347d00e0-7cc0-4a85-8e8f-6630c59dc38d.jpg?v=1732118834","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-9780811216548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}