by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070360284
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«Voyage au bout de la nuit» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Folio in paperback (505 pages, in French).
Ferdinand Bardamu crosses the trenches of the First World War, colonial Africa, the United States and the Parisian outskirts on a journey marked by misery, illness and death. Céline's prose mixes slang and colloquial language with a stark, ironic gaze on war, colonialism, capitalism and the human condition.
The book was first published in 1932 and received the Prix Renaudot; this edition is from 1972.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century French fiction seeking a critical, uncompromising look at war and social inequality.
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."
