Journey to The End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Novel about a Frenchman who fights in WWI, travels to Africa and the US, and later returns to France to become a failed doctor. A book that's like drinking straight everclear—the narrator's total disgust with the stupidities and injustices of modern society is untempered and ruthlessly honest. Celine hates everybody and this is his book of hate.
“I cannot refrain from doubting that there exist any genuine realizations of our deepest character except war and illness, those two infinities of nightmare.”
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