by Louis-Ferdinand Celine · El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669956
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«Viaje al fin de la noche» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by El País in hardcover (572 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows Ferdinand Bardamu, a French doctor, through the First World War, the African colonies and the suburbs of Paris. With direct language and a disenchanted gaze, the novel exercises a fierce satire against Western civilization and social hypocrisy.
First novel in the Ferdinand Bardamu series; the work was originally published in 1932 as Voyage au bout de la nuit, won the Prix Renaudot and this edition includes a translation by Carlos Manzano.
For readers interested in twentieth-century French fiction and social satire.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
