![]() ![]() His girlfriend at the time, a woman named Lola, says to him that only people who are insane or cowardly could reject war when their country is in danger. The prospect of losing his life in battle induces in him a general state of panic. Bardamu’s caustic voice during these episodes carries a definite potency. ![]() It can also be quite disturbing, as when he describes his combat experiences during World War I. He is a doctor but talks like a criminal, and his slangy, vulgar voice is generally gripping and sometimes uproarious. Published in 1932, it is an autobiographical novel that is told in first-person by a character named Ferdinand Bardamu. Though I have read a fair number of French authors-Camus, Sartre and Mauriac, to name a few-only Céline has made me laugh and only in this particular book of his: “Journey to the End of the Night”. ![]()
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