Journey to the End of the Night | Journey to the End of the Night

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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

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.

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