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Journey to the End of the Night.
- Auteur :
Jacques Mugnier - Publication :
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- Prix :
60 euros
Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Trad. Ralph Mannheim. This semi-autobiographical novel described the Céline’s voyage of in post-World war I French colonial Cameroun where he is hired by the lumber company Sangha-Oubangi as a supervisor and as director of a cacao plantation. Céline creates his own ‘voyage imaginaire’, in which the antiheroes Ferdinand Bardamu and his alter ego Robinson were involved with the commerce of rubber produced by a wild African climber. The history, people, locations, and events occurred in south of Senegal (Casamance). The novel is illustrated by drawings of Brosselard-Faidherbe (1892). This is the discovery of the colonialism that Céline denounces on exceptionally ferocious pages in regard to white society.