Call Me Ismail’s Reviews > Journey to the End of the Night > Status Update

Getting very brutally exposed on how rusty my French is but I still see the vision.

"Il avait le vice des intellectuels, il était futile. Il savait trop de choses ce garçon-là et ces choses l’embrouillaient."

"Alors vivent les fous et les lâches! Ou plutôt survivent les fous et les lâches!"

"Ahuris par la guerre, nous étions devenus fous dans un autre genre : la peur. L’envers et l’endroit de la guerre."

"It was from those months that we started shooting soldiers to restore morale, by squads, and the gendarme started getting citations for the manner in which he waged his own little war, the profound war, the truest war."

Currently reading the Ralph Manheim translation but may need to switch to the original because the narration in English is very strange