Journey to the Edge of Night in French.

The novel by French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline "Journey to the Edge of Night", written in 1932, is one of the most important works of French literature of the 20th century. The confession of an intellectual, a representative of the "lost... generation" who has gone through the horrors of World War I and has lost faith in life, was enthusiastically received by some writers - it is enough to mention Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski - and categorically rejected by others.
The novel is interesting not only in terms of content but also stylistically, as it revolutionized French literature. For the first time in three hundred years, colloquial language was allowed in a work of art on par with literary language. Céline did not just introduce colloquial expressions and jargon into the text, but meticulously selected them, creating an artful stylization of rough spoken language.
The opportunity to get acquainted with Céline's famous "tattered" syntax will undoubtedly be appreciated by lovers of modern French literature.