Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (translated by Ralph Manheim)
Paris is one of the characters in the book. You get a real sense of what it looked like in the 1920s – people hanging out in cafés and drinking madly
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“I was particularly fascinated by Céline’s portrait of the city because Paris is one of the characters in the book. You get a real sense of what Paris looked like.” Read more...
David Downie, Travel Writer
