Thanks to this mythical realism and this truly innovative fictional construction, Céline reaches poetics very specific to him that he will always try to overcome all along his work.” ( En Français dans le texte, n☃66). The originality of his tone comes from his intentional deformation of the language he uses, first through a very oral writing, and through the style which constant rhythm contributes to the work’s general lyricism. With a surprising aggressiveness, Céline drew up a fierce review of an age in which he brings the reader.

Half way between the autobiography and the novel, the Journey to the End of the Night tells the wandering of a hero who became mythical, Bardamu, through four main steps: World War I, of which Céline shares with us the horror he lived, then the atmosphere of the hospital a trip to Africa where Bardamu, as a colonist, runs a factory a stay in the United States which gives an outline of the American life such as he feels it and the experience of a suburb doctor facing poverty. This failure fed a vivid polemic between the enthusiasts distinguishing the writer’s genius and the disparagers frightened by the novelty of style and the nihilistic character of the work. “ Journey to the End of the Night failed to the Goncourt prize though it was considered favorite and obtained the Renaudot. He just missed the Goncourt and obtained the Renaudot. The novel was barely published that it had the effect of a bomb. It is in 1932 that Celine broke into literary life with this unprecedented novel of an impetuous violence “ Journey to the End of the Night”, a compilation of experiences of any kind, exhaling like a scream, in sometimes obscene, sometimes deeply moving style, expressing a deep compassion for the weak and victims of social life, and an almost morbid sensitivity with revolt and desperate tones. One of the 100 numbered copies on Alfa paper, this copy bearing the n☄2, second paper after 10 copies printed on vergé d’Arches.

En Français dans le texte, 366 Dauphin & Fouche 32A1.

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