Ferdinand Bardamu  

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Ferdinand Bardamu is the antiheroic protagonist of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's 1932 novel Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit).

The antihero's first name, Ferdinand, is shared with Céline, the author/narrator for whom he acts as a surrogate. His surname, Bardamu, is derived from the French words Barda—the "pack" carried by World War I soldiers—and mu, the past participle of the verb mouvoir, meaning to move. As the novel progresses, circumstances compel Bardamu to give up his "baggage" of conventional morality and the optimism of youth.

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The two would later be combined as "Louis Ferdinand Bardamu" by the narrator Raphael of Modiano's La Place de L'étoile (1968).

French text

Ferdinand Bardamu est un personnage de fiction imaginé par Louis-Ferdinand Céline, et le héros de ses deux livres les plus connus : Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) et Mort à crédit (1936). Il est aussi le personnage principal de Guignol's Band tome I et II, bien que ce roman soit moins connu et eut moins de succès que les deux précédents.

Bardamu, dont le nom signifie littéralement « qui se meut avec son barda, son fardeau » est en réalité le double littéraire de Céline, dont il reprend un des prénoms.



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