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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of population explodes from almost every minute of the novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial words, Journey to the End of the Nights is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty, and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first publicized in France in 1932, but quickly became successful with the public in European countries, and later in the us, where it was first publicized by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable, yet convincingly explained moves of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World Battle I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, requires the listeners by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's unavoidable, sad conclusion.
