Journey to the End of the Night (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
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 after
- 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
Places Discussed
*Flanders. World War I battlefield overlapping France and Belgium where the narrator, Ferdinand Bardamu, discovers the absurdity of war and its meaningless slaughter. The war symbolizes the disease that has infected Europeans, perhaps all humans, and its victims are not only the wounded and killed but the mentally injured—who include Bardamu. The battlefield literalizes the irrational spirit that has taken over the world.
*Paris. Capital of France. To Ferdinand, this beautiful and historic city is seen from a hospital for mental patients. In his new...
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