Journey to the End of the Night

Before you is the most scandalous book of the 20th century. Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a World War I veteran, doctor, and writer, overturned conventional ideas of literature by bringing to the stage the voice of the street, cynicism, and grotesque — instead of the familiar heroic prose.

Journey to the End of the Night is black French humor, ruthless satire, and a play of contrasts: war and farce, death and laughter, filth and poetry. With this book, a new European prose began, and to this day it provokes admiration, debate, and rejection.

This Sunday, in our space, we will hold a meeting to discuss why Céline became a symbol of literary scandal, how his style changed the language of the novel, and why a book written nearly a hundred years ago still sounds so modern and sharp.

The meeting will be hosted by Mr. Volynsky — philosopher, historian, and descendant of Polish-Soviet dissidents.