Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline · 1932
A first-person picaresque through WWI, Africa, Detroit, and Paris that destroyed genteel French prose. Celine invented a raw, slangy, furious voice in 1932 that influenced Beckett, Miller, and Kerouac. Le Monde ranked it sixth. Morally appalling author; extraordinary novel.
Literary Fiction · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.