![]() The novel brings to light Céline’s early days as a medical doctor after WWI. Voyage au Bout de la Nuit was first published in France in 1932. Few writers are as explicit about postmodern man’s embrace of aberrant meaninglessness and lack of purpose. In addition to accurately foreshadowing man’s existential collapse in the twentieth century, Céline is a poignant and vivid chronicler of the moral-spiritual bankruptcy that defines postmodernity. ![]() While some readers may become distracted by the nihilistic exploits of Ferdinand Bardamu, the semi-autobiographical physician protagonist of Journey to the End of the Night, Céline’s first novel, the author is carefully mapping the psyche and self-destructive values of postmodern man. With the noted exception of Nietzsche, no other writer or thinker better foretells the advent of the decomposition of Western values in postmodernity than Louis-Ferdinand Céline. ![]() Two or three little ones here and there…” -Céline, Journey to the End of the Night A few words have changed-but not many of them, even. ![]() They just go on being impressed by themselves and that’s all. ![]()
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