Death on the Installment Plan (Ralph Manheim Translation)

✍ Scribed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 1952
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 426 KB
• Edition: New Directions (1971)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0811223604

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 592 pages
Published 1952
New Directions (1971)
aka "Death on Credit"
Translation by: Ralph Manheim (1966)
"Death on the Installment Plan" is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel "Journey to the End of Night".Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literatue and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of serves in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry. Céline's influence revolutionized the contemporary approach to fiction. Under a cloud for a period, his work is now acknowledged as the forerunner of today's "black humor."