Journey to the End of the Night

Reviews

"The most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature." — John Sturrock, London Review of Books

"My favorite French classic has to be Journey to the End of the Night. It's an epic that takes you all around the world, but the center of the world is Paris, or Céline's delirious, slightly hallucinatory, incredibly poetic vision of it." — Andrew Hussey, The Guardian

"This is the novel, perhaps more than any other, that inspired me to write fiction. Céline showed me that it was possible to convey things that had heretofore seemed inaccessible." — Will Self, The New York Times Book Review

"Teeming with disease, misanthropy, and dark comedy." — The New Yorker

"An extraordinarily gifted writer, he writes like a lunging live wire, crackling and wayward, full of hidden danger." — Alfred Kazin

"Terrifying: enormously powerful and slashing, satiric, misanthropic—but what power of the imagination!" — James Laughlin

"One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. It could be said that without Céline there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski." — John Banville

"Céline is my Proust!" — Philip Roth