Journey to the End of the Night
Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Told in the first person and based on his own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa and in America, where he worked for while at the Ford factory in Detroit, and later as a young doctor in a working class suburb in Paris, it gives a picture of those years as seen by an underdog. Céline’s disgust with human folly, malice and greed comes over in s….Read More
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