Death on the Installment Plan, LouisFerdinand Celine
Death on the Installment Plan, LouisFerdinand Celine
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Death on the Installment Plan

Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Ralph Manheim

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 25 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2020


Synopsis

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 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."

About Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) was a French author best known for his works Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan. After returning from war with a partially paralyzed right arm, Celine worked with the passport office of the French Consulate in London, later moved to Africa to work for a French lumber company, moved back to France, lectured about tuberculosis for the Rockefeller Foundation, and earned a medical degree from the University of Rennes. It was while he worked as a doctor that he turned to writing. He had a successful, albeit controversial, career as a writer until he suffered a stroke in 1961 and passed away.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on June 05, 2023

Man, the crown of God’s creation, is here in all his might… As soon as things begin to look up a little, all people can think of is piggishness… Louis-Ferdinand Céline is a virtuoso of explicit narration, a prodigy of grotesque and a czar of cynicism… “You’re working too hard! You’re a sap! You think......more