Death on the installment plan
By: by Louis-Ferdinand Céline; translated from the French by Ralph Manheim.
Series: A New Directions book
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of Mort à crédit.