Death on the Installment Plan

Name: Death on the Installment Plan
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By: Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Ralph Manheim (Translator, Introduction by)

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Paperback | 17 January 1971

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592 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 3.18

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Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Celine's earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service 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. Celine'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."

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"He writes like a lunging live wire, crackling and wayward, full of hidden danger." -- Alfred Kazin "It could be said that without Celine there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski, no Beat poets." -- John Banville "[A] loosely biographical work teeming with disease, misanthropy, and dark comedy." -- Adelaide Docx - The New Yorker

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