Death on the Installment Plan
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- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1971
Summary
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. Celine’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.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811200172 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0811200175 |
| Author: | Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Imprint: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1971 |
| Weight: | 516g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 130mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“It could be said that without Cline there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski, no Beat poets.”
”[A] loosely biographical work teeming with disease, misanthropy, and dark comedy.” – Adelaide Docx - The New Yorker
“It could be said that without Céline there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski, no Beat poets.” – John Banville
“He writes like a lunging live wire, crackling and wayward, full of hidden danger.” – Alfred Kazin
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Celine fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Condemned by default (1950) in France to one year of imprisonment and declared a national disgrace, Celine returned to France after his pardon in 1951, where he continued to write until his death. His classic books include Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, London Bridge, North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, Castle to Castle, and Normance.
Ralph Manheim (1907-1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. is named in honor of Manheim and his work.
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