num_pages: 448
description: Told in the first person and based on his own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa and in America, where he worked for while at the Ford factory in Detroit, and later as a young doctor in a working class suburb in Paris, it gives a picture of those years as seen by an underdog. Céline's disgust with human folly, malice and greed comes over in superb portraits of mainly ordinary human beings coping with their lives as best they can, caught in their poverty or their obsessions, hindered by ignorance and prejudice from evading traps of their own making.
language: English
title: Journey to the End of the Night
titlecomplete: Journey to the End of the Night
characters: Molly, Léon Robinson, Madame Henrouille, Lola, Musyne, L'abbé Protiste, Alcide, Sophie, Baryton, Ferdinand Bardamu, Parapine, Bébert, Madelon
genres: Fiction, France, War, French Literature, Philosophy, Roman, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century
ratings_count: 40431
places: France, Africa, The United States of America
series: Ferdinand Bardamu
awards: awardedAt: -1199203200000
name: Prix Renaudot, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ
category: Γαλλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία
publisher: John Calder Pub Ltd