Andrew Hussey * The Guardian * Celine's expletive-laden, first-person narration influenced Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski and Beat poetry. It's an epic that takes you all around the world, but the centre of the world is Paris, or Celine's delirious, slightly hallucinatory, incredibly poetic vision of it. Howard Jacobson * The Guardian * My favourite French classic has to be Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. It's obscene, rock-bottom laughter, disabused of all idealism, that provides the tonic Celine speaks of. John Banville The blackest comedies can baffle readers not trained, or just unwilling, to recognise the comic in human extremis. It could be said that without Celine there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski, no Beat poets. ISBN 978-0316182911.Journey to the End of the Night, first published in 1932, is one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light. "The End Of Night by Paul Bogard, review".
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