num_pages: 509
description: Future historians, charting the disintegration of social forms in our age, will find paramount expression of this revolt in the novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In 1932 Journey To The End of the Night, his first novel, exploded on a complacent France like a bombshell. Translated soon afterward in English, it became a best-seller among American readers who were at once shocked and fascinated. Today Céline's works, epics of adamant pessimism, are making a fresh appeal to a generation even more puzzled about life than their predecessors.The first of two autobiographical novels, Journey To The End of the Night (published by New Directions in 1949 is the story of Ferdinand Bardamu and his search for personal fulfillment in World War I, in the lower depths of Paris, through African jungles, and finally in the slums of the United States and factories of Detroit. It is a journey of violence and excitement, told with unforgettable vividness and remarkable sensitivity.--back cover
language: English
title: Journey To The End of the Night
titlecomplete: Journey To The End of the Night
characters: Madame Henrouille, Lola, Baryton, Musyne, Madelon, Molly, Sophie, Alcide, Léon Robinson, Bébert, Parapine, L'abbé Protiste, Ferdinand Bardamu
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, Philosophy, France, War, Roman, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 40432
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: New Directions