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Wandering and searching for meaning in life In 2003 The Guardian ranked it 51 st in The 100 greatest novels of all time. Nowadays Journey to the End of the Night is considered a masterpiece in European literature. After the war, he declared his pamphlets were just black humour and that he just wanted to preserve French and Aryan. He never declared himself as a fascist and didn’t appreciate Philippe Pétain, Vichy France’s President, but his political views remained ambivalent. Céline wrote some pamphlets in which a vein of distinct antisemitism came out. Winner of the Prix Renaudot and Prix Goncourt in 1932, the novel had been disregarded for years due to its author’s affinity with Vichy France and Nazism. A gloomy, nihilist exploration of human nature and everyday sufferance. Thus, Journey to the End of the Night turns out to be the story and the thoughts of a man wandering in an unsettled life. All his works tangle hate with love, given from his compassion for those who suffer. Afflicted by existential angst, he will always have a vision of life full of pessimism, cynicism, and misanthropy. The writer enrolled as a volunteer for the French army in 1912 war scarred him for life, influencing his creations. These opening lines of Journey to the End of the Night give an introduction to this autobiographical fiction, and t hey also summarize what the story is about and Louis-Ferdinand Céline‘s conception of life. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. One of the most pivotal scenes of the film involves Algerian females in support of the FLN dressing up as Europeans (with a particular emphasis placed on the shedding of their Algerian identity to do so) and placing bombs in several public spaces within occupied territory. This, of course, like in reality, is revealed to be a facade, with many of the harsher methods of torture used by the French shown later on. In order to provide exposition from the perspective of the French Army, Pontecorvo rarely shows them among themselves directly, instead simulating a press conference through which the Army can voice their opinion on the Algerian nationalist movement and the tactics through which they are combating it. To complement this effect, the film is cut as if it were a journalistic newsreel ( similar to the films of Costa-Gavras), complete with the voice of a ‘broadcaster’ who recaps the events of the war up until the film’s start. In order to maintain this attempt at neutrality, Pontecorvo mostly cast non-professional actors who had been active throughout the conflict. Though fundamentally rooted in its Algerian protagonist, Pontecorvo’s film is designed to be as politically neutral as possible, particularly as opinions on the conflict in Algeria throughout Europe was divided at the time, with this film providing a global shift in the conflict was perceived by the masses. Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Authors Guild. Writer-in-residence at MacDowell Colony, and others. Hobbies and other interests: Movies, theatre, the San Francisco Giants. (creative writing magna cum laude), 1976, M.A. Education: San Francisco State University, B.A. Born December 14, 1950, in Oakland, CA daughter of Royal William (a carpenter and teacher) and Leisa (a school) Sturtevant married Ronald Stuart (a software engineer), Decemchildren: Joseph, Peter (twins). Has that had any influence on your novels? In the bio on your site, you mention your strong love of poetry. So it took a long time, but it was totally worth it. I started buckling down and treating it like a professional job, and eight years later sold my first book. It wasn’t until college, though, that I took a writing class from Dave Wolverton and realized for the first time that writing could be an actual career in which one could actually make money. I wrote all through school, trying everything from short stories to novels to poetry to comicbooks I built puppets and wrote elaborate mythologies for them I wrote songs and scripts and experimented with every weird narrative device I could think of. I told my parents in second grade that I was going to be a writer, because they’d raised me to be a reader and I couldn’t think of anything more awesome than making up stories. Website Photo courtesy Micah Demoux How did you get into writing in the first place? He plays a lot of games, reads a lot of books, and eats a lot of food, which is pretty much the ideal life he imagined for himself as a child. He is a co-host on the podcast Writing Excuses, for which he has won a Hugo award and two Parsecs. Dan Wells is the author of the Partials sequence, the John Cleaver series, and several other novels and shorter works published all around the world. |