Journey to the End of the Night

Told in the first person, the novel is based on the author’s own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA – where he worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit – and later as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine’s disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives it its force.

If you enjoyed Journey to the End of the Night, you might like Death on Credit, London Bridge and Guignol’s Band, all part of Alma Classics Céline collection.

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