journey to the end of the night by louis ferdinand céline

His parents were poor (father a clerk, mother a seamstress). Louis-Ferdinand Destouches was raised in Paris, in a flat over the shopping arcade where his mother had a lace store. His highly innovative writing style using Parisian vernacular, vulgarities, and intentionally peppering ellipses throughout the text was used to evoke the cadence of speech. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, is best known for his works Voyage au bout de la nuit ( Journey to the End of the Night), and Mort à crédit ( Death on the Installment Plan). After an education that included stints in Germany and England, he performed a variety of dead-end jobs before he enlisted in the French cavalry in 1912, two years before the outbreak of the Louis-Ferdinand Céline, pen name of Dr. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Louis-Ferdinand Céline, pen name of Dr. This edition contains a foreword by John Banville. First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. 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. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris.

Journey to the end of the night by louis ferdinand céline