Journey to the End of the Night (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis-Ferdinand Destouches
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: World War I and following years
- Setting: France, Africa, and the United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Colonies or colonization, Murder or homicide, Doctors, Antiheroes, Mental illness, Immigration or emigration, World War I, Soldiers, Bombs
- Locales: Africa, United States, Paris, France, Flanders
Characters Discussed
Ferdinand Bardamu (fehr-dee- NAH[N] bahr-dah-MEW), a war-wounded, disillusioned, cynical neurotic and a rogue. Successively a medical student, soldier, mental patient, pimp, flea expert, Ford worker, doctor, music-hall supernumerary, and administrator of a madhouse, he undergoes experiences that would tax the strongest constitution and the sanest mind. In his restless shifting from one job to another and from one locale to another, he resembles not only the rogues of picaresque fiction but also his creator, Ferdinand Céline.
Léon Robinson (lay-...
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