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Death on the installment plan / by Louis-Ferdinand Céline ; translated from the French by Ralph Manheim.
LIBRA PQ2607.E834 M813 1971 copy 3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 330.
- A New Directions paperbook ; 330
- Standardized Title:
- Mort à crédit. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 592 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., [1971]
- Summary:
- Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Céline'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. 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."
- ISBN:
- 0811200175
- 9780811200172
- OCLC:
- 11648161
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