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"Voyage au bout de la nuit" Author: [France] Louis Ferdinand Céline Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House Original title: Voyage au bout de la nuit
"Voyage au bout de la nuit" Author: [France] Louis Ferdinand Céline Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House Original title: Voyage au bout de la nuit
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
"Wandering in the Dark" tells the story of a doctor who witnessed the sufferings of ordinary people in a society that was becoming increasingly crazy and morally corrupt. In this work, Céline used a new novel form, a unique style, and colloquial language that was both vulgar and humorous. He fiercely condemned the war and militarism that ravaged Europe, criticized colonialism that harmed Africa, and described the poverty, disease, pain and death in the suburbs of Paris. The protagonist of the novel, Badamiu, already showed the confused mood of the characters in the existentialist novels that were popular 20 years later. Céline's world is an alienated world, a sinful world. In his world, everyone is both a victim and a creator of evil. People live in the dark night, with nowhere to go and nothing to do. He expressed his desperate philosophy with a hallucinatory epic style, using lyrical and vulgar, eloquent, vulgar and even vicious language, portraying his ugly group portraits, creating a unique Céline style, and thus becoming one of the great French writers of the 20th century.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Louis Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961), French novelist and doctor, whose real name is Louis Ferdinand Dedoche. Born in Hauts-de-Seine. Worked as a shop apprentice and was wounded in World War I. After the war, he entered university to study medicine and participated in the medical investigation of the League of Nations after graduation. In 1928, he worked in the Municipal Hospital in the suburbs of Paris and wrote his masterpiece "Wandering in the Dark". Most of the characters in his works are distorted by war, poverty, vulgarity, prejudice, pornography and disease in the journey of life full of worries and difficulties. In that unprecedented and dazzling era, he used exaggerated methods to criticize the cold and cruel relationship between people. From the established order, traditional culture, ethics and morality to living habits, diet and daily life, all of them were the objects of his thorough negation and ruthless lashing. When this novel was published in 1932, it shocked the French literary world and won the Renaudot Literature Prize.