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Journey to the End of the Night ( French: Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932) is the first novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. This semi-autobiographical work follows the adventures of Ferdinand Bardamu in World War I, colonial Africa, the United States and the poor suburbs of Paris where he works as a doctor.
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 1932
Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it ...
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- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Jul 30, 2023 · A critical review of the 1932 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a cynical and darkly comic commentary on the modern condition. The novel follows the adventures of Bardamu, a medical student turned soldier, across three continents, as he encounters the horrors of war, colonialism, and industrialism.
Complete summary of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches' Journey to the End of the Night. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Journey to the End of the Night.
The novel follows Ferdinand Bardamu, a cowardly soldier who travels from France to Africa to America and back, meeting misery and cruelty everywhere. It is a bleak and realistic portrait of the world after World War I, with some black humour and inventive language.
May 17, 2006 · Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy: Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of cruelty and violence that hurtles through the improbable travels of the petit bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero ...
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