Puteshestvie na krai nochi [Voyage au bout de la nuit / Journey to the End of the Night]

Translation by Elsa Triolet. Preface by Ivan Anisimov.
Moskva, Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1934
Limited to 15 000 copies.
Second edition of the translation of the novel Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) in Russian. This edition was published eleven months later after first edition.
New preface was added, the text of the translation was slightly edited. As original publication of the novel became a bestseller, Leon Trotsky wrote an article, where compared Celine with Rabelais. He invited Elsa Triolet to translate the novel into Russian language. She left Russia in 1919 and became Louis Aragon's wife. The novel was published in USSR with substantive cuts and Celine accused Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon of distortion of the text. According to François Gibault, Celine's biographer, novel was translated by unknown person in Moscow. Triolet only helped him or her to understand the meaning of some words. Later Soviet critic called Celine as 'aesthetics of mud' after the publication of the novel Mort a credit (1936). Russian translations of all Celine's books put in libraries special storage section after the publication of pamphlets Mea Culpa (1936) and Bagatelles pour un massacre (1937).

Rare, especially in such condition.

OCLC locates two copies in University of Utah and National Library of Israel.