Céline Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night (PDF)
The debut novel by French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published in 1932.
A semi-autobiographical narrative told from Bardamu's perspective, the protagonist experiences the horrors of World War I, colonial Africa, the assembly line life of Ford factories in the United States, and his work as a doctor in the poor neighborhoods of Paris. The novel's revolutionary nature lies in its use of lively, colloquial French, an abundance of slang, coarseness, and obscene language, which shattered the academic canons of literature of the time.