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jpowerj's review against another edition
5.0
Despite his fascism ( :( ), Celine honestly goes into my top 5 writers in terms of ability to really get to the core of depression/loneliness/alienation/revulsion. Basically to me he's in the class of authors like Hermann Hesse, David Foster Wallace, Sylvia Plath, Dave Eggers, Haruki Murakami, Jean-Paul Sartre and maybe... Mark Fisher?
asad261's review against another edition
4.0
سفر به انتهای شب یکی از بهترین آثاری بود که امسال خواندم. نویسنده شخصیت اول داستان را رهسپار یک سفر طولانی می‌کند، سفری به قصد بیرون آمدن از سیاهی‌ها (هرچند این هدف هرگز ره به جایی نمی برد)، سیاهی‌هایی که همچون تیرگی شب بر تار و پود زندگی انسان‌ها سایه افکنده‌اند و از دیرباز تاکنون زندگی آدمی را متاثر نموده‌اند و گویی هیچ پایانی برای آن متصور نمی‌توان شد، جنگ، استعمار، سرمایه‌داری، فقر، فحشا، خودبیگانگی و ... تنها بخشی از موضوعاتی هستند که در این رمان به آن‌ها پرداخته شده. شروع داستان به نظرم بسیار جذاب آمد، نویسنده، شخصیت اول داستان را که از زندگی اش به ستوه آمده وارد یک سفر بی‌انتها می‌کند، سفری که هیچ دلیلی برای آن نمی‌توان جستجو کرد جز خشم و جنون لحظه‌ای یک فرد و تصمیم بی بازگشتش برای رفتن به قلب سیاهی‌ها. کتاب از کشش و ضرباهنگ مناسبی برخوردار بود و هرچه به پایان اثر نزدیک می شویم، بر کشش داستان افزوده می‌شود، ترجمه اثر، روان و مناسب است و کتاب مملو از جملاتی که همواره در گوشه ذهن آدمی حک خواهد شد، نمره این کتاب از نظر من حداقل 4.5 است.
“بگذار دیگران هر چه دل‌شان می‌خواهد بگویند و فکر کنند، ولی واقعیت این است که زندگی حتی قبل از اینکه ما برای همیشه ترکش کنیم، ترک‌مان می‌کند”.
“بگذار دیگران هر چه دل‌شان می‌خواهد بگویند و فکر کنند، ولی واقعیت این است که زندگی حتی قبل از اینکه ما برای همیشه ترکش کنیم، ترک‌مان می‌کند”.
ian314's review against another edition
"In the kitchens of love, after
all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's
indispensable"
all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's
indispensable"
kj_1429's review against another edition
dark
sad
slow-paced
3.0
Read this edgelord literature at your own risk
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism and Misogyny
elliotlea's review
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Racial slurs, Racism, Colonisation, Misogyny, and War
optibooks's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
robdabear's review against another edition
4.0
I find it troubling to choose a few words to describe this book without simply resorting to the term "brutal." Indeed, this is, in ways, a very brutal book, almost so much so that I took a long hiatus from reading in avoidance of soaking in its bitter, misanthropic spirit. Nevertheless, what Celine, this odd, tarnished French author, has done in "Journey to the End of the Night" is craft a novel in the most traditional sense while imparting a viscerally scathing review of "modern" humanity in its darkest, most sinister preoccupations.
I'll spare any further verbosity. Our narrator, Ferdinand, is at times hard to follow with his ranting and rapid change of scenery and disposition, and yet here and there, perhaps on every other page, there is a passage of that aforementioned brutality that reflects in some sort of honest realization - the kind of feeling of release you get when someone says what everyone in the room was thinking, but was too afraid to say for fear of sounding evil - I admit that my style of reading doesn't spend too much time dwelling on each of these passages individually, but as a whole, added with the odd and terrible cast of characters and the satirical and often bitter references in names and places by the author, I think "Journey..." is a book I will likely return to, perhaps when the Night seems to be too much.
I'll spare any further verbosity. Our narrator, Ferdinand, is at times hard to follow with his ranting and rapid change of scenery and disposition, and yet here and there, perhaps on every other page, there is a passage of that aforementioned brutality that reflects in some sort of honest realization - the kind of feeling of release you get when someone says what everyone in the room was thinking, but was too afraid to say for fear of sounding evil - I admit that my style of reading doesn't spend too much time dwelling on each of these passages individually, but as a whole, added with the odd and terrible cast of characters and the satirical and often bitter references in names and places by the author, I think "Journey..." is a book I will likely return to, perhaps when the Night seems to be too much.