Journey to the End of the Night
- ISBN-10
- 0714538000
- ISBN-13
- 9780714538006
- Series
- Journey to the End of the Night
- Category
- French fiction
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Calder Publications Limited
- Author
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Description
When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.
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