Céline Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night

Céline Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night (PDF) The debut novel by French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published in 1932. A semi-autobiographical narrative told from Bardamu´s perspective, the protagonist experiences the horrors of World War I, colonial Africa, the assembly line life of Ford factories in the United States, and his work as a doctor in the poor neighborhoods of Paris. The novel´s revolutionary nature lies in its use of lively, colloquial French, an abundance of slang, coarseness, and obscene language, which shattered the academic canons of literature of the time.