by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495971227
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«Viaje al fin de la noche» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Quinteto in paperback (608 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Ferdinand Bardamu, a doctor and antihero, through the trenches of the First World War, the French colonies in Africa, the United States and interwar Paris. His experiences paint a disillusioned portrait of war, colonialism and society, with the irony and direct language characteristic of Céline.
First installment of the Ferdinand Bardamu series. It won the Prix Renaudot in 1932. Spanish edition translated by Carlos Manzano De Frutos, in the Quinteto Bolsillo collection (no. 47).
For readers of twentieth-century French classics who want a critical look at war and society.
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."
