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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: Long live Celine! "Journey to the End of the Night" is as raucous, intimate and disturbingly human as any book written in the last hundred years. Imbued with a biting wit and a matchless diabolical mirth, Celine invites comparison with Nietzsche, H.L. Mencken and Ambrose Bierce. Yes, he will--like all artists of the first rank--offend lesser individuals: Weak-minded, right-thinking junior college-educated halfwits who can't wait to sound off on their BORROWED opinions and State-sanctioned Politically Correct ideals. . . . And for this, I can't thanks Celine enough! Vive l'art!
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Summary: best of the century
Review: Surely, the great novel of the century (with Ulysses and 100 Years of Solitude). Anger and poetry -- no one touched it again (maybe Jackson Pollock?) until John Lydon screamed. How does one respond to the butchery in the trenches of W. W. I? Polite novels about the social mores of the bourgeoisie? "Then it will be over and that will be all right with me."
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Summary: AN ANTE LITTERAM BURNOUT ANALYSIS
Review: BEEING A DOCTOR LIKE CELINE, AND AN OCCUPATIONAL DOCTOR, I CONSIDER THIS BOOK THE FIRST ANLYSIS AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ONSET OF BURNOUT SYNDROME IN A DOCTOR (CONSIDER THAT THE TERM BURNOUT APPEARED IN 1974)AND IS EXPLICATIVE OF THE NIHILISM AND THE SELFDESTROYING NARCISISM THAT LEADED A MAN VOTED TO HUMANITY TOWARD ODIOUS BEHAVIOUR
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Summary: excellent timeless cynical masterpiece
Review: If you havent read this book, I would reccomend it highly. I first read this on a long cross country bus trip thru America.. Its especially fun to read in crowded airports... Celine is a master of taking simple situations and griping the most trivial detail into the ground until there's nothing left but the bare essentials... Please treat yourself to a highly rewarding experience... Not just a scatching commentary about war but every folly really known to man. Should have been on the top one hundred best books of the century... say like maybe in the top 20... Yes, its that good.
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Summary: in my top 5 all time
Review: when i try to come up with novels that i enjoyed more than "Journey to the End of the Night" only "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Marquez comes to mind. i can't help but think that a few others may slip past Celine as well but they do not come easily to mind ... so many books, so many years, etc. i will never understand the intensity of scorn that some feel towards this novel, though i can understand more easily the ill feelings some may have towards Celine the man. read the book, your public library and amazon.com are filled with gems ... this is one of them :)
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Summary: One of the top 5 books of the century
Review: Yeah, Celine-the-man had more than one squeleton in his closet but Celine-the-artist is one of the best natural writer you'll ever come across. Words flow from him effortlessly. His depiction of the atrocity of war is the best I have ever read. As a native French speaker, I read the book in French. I don' t know whether the translation does justice to the original prose (how do you translate "On est puceau de la guerre comme on l' est de l' amour"?) It's okay to love this book and it's okay to hate it but if it leave you indifferent then either my watch has stopped or you're dead!
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Summary: Perhaps The Greatest novel of the century.
Review: Celine said of all the novels and writings he had done he would save his beloved 'Journey', and burn the rest...Journey is indeed a creative diamond of a work, distilled down from 1000's of pages of notes Celine wrote one of this centuries most powerful, inventive and inluential novels... Whether Celine's telegraphic style or his blackened pessimism will appeal to many readers is another matter. For those readers who find personal dislike of the author's tone or take offence at Celine's personal life ,Journey will seem to be merely the vulgar ramblings of an angry disillusioned drifter...these readers should look somewhere else. For those readers who willingly climb on board open minded and free of prejudice Celine offers up an often hillarious, sad, pathetic world ; his style moves from heights of beauty to stinging condemnations, verbal wit ,riotous colour and often overlooked subtlety saturated in pathos...What may seem impossible to some readers is that Celine's misanthropism is grounded in a tongue-in-cheek humanism, a saddened resignation in man's intolerance, vanities, and follies... in fact, more in line with Balzac and Stendhal than Miller or Bukowski... Celine's creations fit well into Oscar Wilde's definition of perfect art, where all critics and public violently disagree and invoke debate.
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Summary: Best book of sardonic wit and social commentary ever!!
Review: I am reading "Journey" for the third time, after it spent three years on my shelves. It still explodes with inimitable flames of sardonic humor. I am sending it to a friend who can appreciate the deadly verbal fusillades that Celine so deftly casts at the mediocities and selfishness of modern society.
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Summary: How can anyone with a brain pan this novel?
Review: This is in response to all the people who bashed "Journey". Celine is the greatest writer of the past 2000 years and if you can't appreciate him you obviously have no taste or feeling for great writing. If you want something safe and predictable (ie "uplifting") then go read John Updike or Toni Morrison. "Journey" deserves its reputation and for anyone to rehash Celine's "collaboration" is incredibly lame. You've got to know something about the Celine's politics and Europe at the time before you start parroting some PC tripe. Here's to Celine, a true poet of the 20th century.
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Summary: My 2 cents...
Review: There are people that swing to hate or love for this book...and others of his and bukowski etc...I don't love this book. It was not enjoyable for me...but to act like it was the age of the reader that caused them to like it is bull. I am 37 and a single father---and content in my life.. That defines largely what i like to read. A nephew handed me Celine because I said I had heard/seen the books, but not picked them up. He loved it. It was not his age, it was the fact that his life has helf for him certain experiences and trials. I would not have liked the book at his age because I had a different life. not to bring up the news, but--Just like the kids in Littleton had very different perspectives on the same school and social text. Being young comes with a certain set of experiences, but most can and do differ widely. Would a black teen living inthe inner city read Celine? No. Would a perky cheerleader enjoy the text ? No. Can Brittany Spears read? No. The point is that there are factors other than age that are more powerful.
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