Journey to the end of the Night Reddit

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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