Journey to the End of the Night (edit title)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Journey to the End of the Night Tuesday, November 10 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Louis-Ferdinand Celine:
• 2 : Ralph Manheim:

Timothy Gray approved Daniel Z’s request to change the title of Journey to the End of the Night Sunday, November 1 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Daniel Z’s request to change the contributors of Journey to the End of the Night Thursday, October 15 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Ralph Manheim: (Primary AuthorTranslator)
• Edited a contributor: Louis-Ferdinand Celine: (Primary NoneAuthor)

Daniel Z changed the title of Journey to the End of the Night Thursday, October 15 2009.

Daniel Z edited the contributors of Journey to the End of the Night Thursday, October 15 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Ralph Manheim: (Primary AuthorTranslator)
• Edited a contributor: Louis-Ferdinand Celine: (Primary NoneAuthor)

Shelfari edited the description of Journey to the End of the Night Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Journey to the End of the Night Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ralph Manheim: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Louis-Ferdinand Celine: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Journey to the End of the Night Friday, July 17 2009.

• Here's how it started.