Journey To The End of The Night (paperback)

Louis-Ferdinand Céline's (1894-1961) book was first published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Céline's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experience during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris.