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  2. Summary. Ferdinand, an indifferent student of medicine in Paris, is anarchistic in his reaction to authority and emphatically pacifistic. Immediately prior to World War I, he is...

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  3. Plot Summary. Journey to the End of the Night is a modernist novel by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, first published in the French language in 1932 by Parisian publishing house Éditions Denoël et Steele. It is a semi-autobiographical work centered on the life and travels of cynical antihero Ferdinand Bardamu, set over several decades of Bardamu’s ...

  4. Plot summary. Ferdinand Bardamu is a young Parisian medical student who, in a fit of enthusiasm, voluntarily enlists in the French army on the outbreak of World War One. During his first engagement with the enemy he decides that the war doesn’t make any sense and he needs to clear out.

    • Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    • 1932
  5. Brief Synopsis. Plot Overview and Setting. The story begins during World War I, where we are introduced to Ferdinand Bardamu, a young Frenchman serving as a soldier on the front lines. After the war, Bardamu moves to colonial Africa, working in a remote trading post.

  6. Plot Summary. Chapters. Characters. Objects/Places. Themes. Style. Quotes. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The novel opens in Paris, near the time of World War I, in 1914.

  7. Journey to the End of the Night is an exceptionally well-written, scathingly intelligent novel. In it, you encounter the refreshingly misanthropic Bardamu, who leaves France after WWI and travels to Africa and America before coming back to France and the end of the night.

  8. Jul 30, 2023 · By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 30, 2023. The 1932 publication of the cynical and darkly comic Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) sent immediate shock waves into a French literary world still reeling from the social and artistic disruptions of World War I.

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