Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered
the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page
of this novel. 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 was first published by New
Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly
described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely
autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War
I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to
life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff
and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.
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