Journey to the End of Night
work by Céline
Also known as: “Voyage au bout de la nuit”
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discussed in biography
- In Louis-Ferdinand Céline
…bout de la nuit (1932; Journey to the End of Night), the story of a man’s tortured and hopeless search for meaning, written in a vehement and disjointed style that marked its author as a major innovator of 20th-century French literature. There followed Mort à crédit (1936; Death on the…
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place in French literature
- In French literature: Céline and Drieu
…bout de la nuit (1932; Journey to the End of the Night) and Mort à credit (1936; Death on the Installment Plan), were radically experimental in form and language. They give a dark account of the machinery of repressive authoritarianism and the operations of capitalist ambition in war and peace,…
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