Death on the Installment Plan

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."

Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/17/1971
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.21w x 1.31d
ISBN13: 9780811200172
ISBN10: 0811200175
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Humorous | Black Humor