Journey to the End of the NightFirst published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Clines fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the authors own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working class suburb in Paris. Clines disgust with human folly, malice, greed, and the