Journey to the End of the Night

Clines masterpiececolloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humorClines masterpiececolloquial, polemic, hyper realisticboils over with bitter humor and revulsion at societys idiocy and hypocrisy:Journey to the End of the Nightis a literary symphony of cruelty and violence that hurtles through the improbable travels of the petit bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu: from the trenches of WWI, to the African jungle, to New York, to the Ford Factory in Detroit, and finally to life in Paris as a failed doctor. Ralph Manheims pitch-perfect translation captures Clines savage energy, and a dynamic afterword by William T. Vollmann presents a fresh, furiously alive take on this astonishing novel.