Voyage au bout de la nuit
The novel was highly praised, and was quickly translated. The English-language version, published under the title "Bitter Victory", was described by Time magazine as "one of the strongest French novels since Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night"... it has much in common with Celine's masterpiece in its mood of intense disgust, its savage satirical portraits, its hatred of hypocrisy and its wild, grotesque humor."