Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

These military parades in the evenings, what d’you think they look like? It’s ludicrous, it’s comic opera. “O yes, darling, they’re impossible, with this war of theirs. Then you hear music in the distance, ringing, warlike music. He’s impossible, isn’t he, with his war.” He was telling us all about the big exercises at Mourmelon, you know! O, he said, it means war, I’ll be leaving, I’m. I’m really not interested, you know.” “But the aide de camp, it’s little Boilepère, O he was there yesterday, he’s impossible, don’t show you’ve seen anything, don’t look, don’t look.

So the first of the ladies, for God’s sake, “O I say, it’s General de Boisrobert, did you see?” “Yes, I saw.” “He greeted me, didn’t he?” “Yes, yes, he greeted you. And along the Avenue du Bois, along the allée cavalère goes a general, his aide de camp bringing up the rear, on horseback, of course, on horseback. So then, for God’s sake, we hear what they’re saying. And here we have three somewhat nervy Parisiennes. Celine, who had long envisaged such a film, responded with an unusually complete impromptu monologue which amounted to a working draft for a film scenario.

When considering a screen version of Journey, he called on Celine with a tape-recorder and asked him to suggest ideas for the script. Darribehaude is a French film director and television producer whose interest in Celine’s work was rewarded when Celine first became his friend and then accorded him the interviews here printed in English translation for the first time. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Patrick Bowles Issue 31, Winter-Spring 1964 His nonfiction includes Rising Up and Rising Down which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003, and his novel Europe Central won the National Book Award in 2005. Vollmann is the author of The Atlas (winner of the 1997 PEN Center West Award), Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, and Europe Central. 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. Ralph Manheim (1907-1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. 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. 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. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Céline fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering.

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline