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Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Journey to the End of the Night about?
The dark side of On the Road : instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life. 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. Amazon.com Review When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, it
Who reads Journey to the End of the Night?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Publisher
- New Directions Book
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811208468
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.24 / 5 (17,889 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14