It seems to me that three of the most outstanding modern picaresque novels are Ce`line's Voyage, Mann's Felix Krull, Bellow's Augie March.
In this paper the Author is going to study Voyage's picaresque technic. Augie March was subject of the Author...
It seems to me that three of the most outstanding modern picaresque novels are Ce`line's Voyage, Mann's Felix Krull, Bellow's Augie March.
In this paper the Author is going to study Voyage's picaresque technic. Augie March was subject of the Author's preceding paper; Felix Krull is supposed to be subject of the Author's following paper.
Voyage, when it was published, made a great sensation. First of all the shock came from Ce`line's use of spoken language on the printed page. But more shocking than this kind of verbal realism was the creation of the picaresque hero Ferdinand Bardamu.
The "Voyage" of Ce`line's narrator is literal as well as metaphorical. He spends his whole life escaping from one environement to another. He is vagabonding, throughout two continens, Africa and America, to the end of the night, nothing or death. He is a modern picaro, a image of the human being who is wandering without end in this world.