Just finished this book and it exceeded my expectations. What are some of the themes you take away from the book? Favorite quotes? Let's have a discussion.

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The book follows the semi-autobiographical account of a young Frenchman from the frontlines in WWI to his experiences in colonial Africa and a pre-WWII America.

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I read this novel for a university course, and it thrilled me. The raw, visceral pessimism and self-deprecating humour was so perfectly consistent throughout ...

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It's sexist, racist and generally offensive, Celine even became an anti Semite nazi collaborator, but the book is strangely imbued with so much humanity.

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It basically follows the wandering of a man disillusioned with the world through his experiences with war, colonialism, capitalism, poverty, and ...

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It's a masterpiece, and Céline is a word genius. Reading this novel doesn't obligate you to adhere to a nearly century-old worldview. The ...

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A story of a man who goes around to different places and doesn't really do anything. The last paragraph/scene was really good though, and probably the ...

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Not that this book is a merely depressing and ironic. While those moods caught my attention, there is a really mature and adult sadness and ...

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In my opinion, the problem is not with the start, but with the end. The last third of the book is tedious beyond compare.

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So I am currently reading Louis-Ferdinand Céline's 'Journey to the end of the night'. I picked it up after finishing Catch 22 and reading ...

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