Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Journey to the End of the Night

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Two of the most important questions this novel tackles are these. First, are we motivated by hatred? As an extremely tribal or pack species, are we humans psychologically hardwired to sacrifice our lives because of hatred of the other tribe or nation? Throughout history, warfare has been one of the most constant human affairs, in which millions of people give up their lives safeguarding their tribes or conquering another tribe. This brings to the second most important question this amazing novel poses. Are men the disposable sex? The burden of fighting in a war has predominantly fallen on the shoulders of men. This has been true thousands of years ago and even today, the majority of soldiers dying in action are men.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of Charles Bukowski’s favourite authors. His masterpiece, Journey to the End of the Night is an absolutely brilliant novel, perhaps one of the best of the 20th century French literature. The novel gives insight into the human nature saying that we are not motivated by kindness or altruism but by hatred. Despite being a pessimistic novel, it’s incredibly artistic, deeply psychological and profoundly philosophical about the human condition.

So today I will tell you about Celine’s life, summarise his masterpiece and discuss some of the themes in one of the most profound novels of the 20th century while trying to answer whether hatred is a great motivator in human psychology as well as whether evolution has designed men as the disposable sex.

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