Picaresque novel, initiation novel, journey to the Edge of the Night, signed Louis-Ferdinand Celine, his real name Louis Destouches, was awarded the Renaudot Prize in 1932. Following a military parade, Ferdinand Bardamu enrolled in a regiment. Immersed in the Great War, he experiences the horror and the meeting with Robinson, whom he finds throughout his adventures. Wounded, repatriated, he saw the conflict from behind, torn between female conquests and fits of madness. Reformed, he sailed for Africa, worked in a colonial company. Sick, he went to the United States, met Molly, a prostitute with a big heart in Detroit while he was a chain worker. Back in France, doctor, installed in a dispensary in the suburbs, he is confronted with the sordid all comers of misery, at the same time that he meets here and there sublime beings of generosity, infinite delicacy, "a gaiety for the universe "...An anti-militaristic, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist epic, the sum of all of the author's experiences, journey to the Edge of the Night is peopled by poor wretches wandering around in a world where horror litigates it absurdly. But, at the end of this night, the journey lacks neither humor, nor dashing characters, female beauties "on the way to infinity". Essential text of the literature of the XXth century, it is sprinkled with scathing aphorisms, dynamited by colloquial, slang expressions, and a burst of syntax which makes Celine's reputation.