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Death on Credit

by Ralph Manheim, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Scandalous sequel explores debt, despair, and survival.

"Death on Credit" dives further into the bleak, yet captivating universe first revealed in Céline's "Journey to the End of the Night." The harsh realities of the protagonist's life are depicted through a distinctive, darkly comedic lens that can be shockingly honest. If you appreciated the raw candor of Céline's writing in the first book, this sequel deepens the emotional and existential exploration, making it a must-read for admirers of his work.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Translation (1967)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Death on Credit

by Ralph Manheim, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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ISBN: 9780714541570
Authors: Ralph Manheim, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher: Riverrun Pr
Date of Publication: 1989-05-01
Related Collections: Literary Fiction
Related Topics: French Literature, Philosophy, Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.21
(rated by 8418 readers)

Description

Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan 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. 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 comedy." Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasies – lusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the "scientist" des Pereires. This inventor
 

Scandalous sequel explores debt, despair, and survival.

"Death on Credit" dives further into the bleak, yet captivating universe first revealed in Céline's "Journey to the End of the Night." The harsh realities of the protagonist's life are depicted through a distinctive, darkly comedic lens that can be shockingly honest. If you appreciated the raw candor of Céline's writing in the first book, this sequel deepens the emotional and existential exploration, making it a must-read for admirers of his work.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Translation (1967)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.