LoginDeath on the Installment Plan (ND Paperbook)
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's second novel continues the style of black humor and the delirious but immediate prose that made the author instantly famous in his native France in the aftermath of World War I. Celine's goal was to create a kind of literature that described people in honest terms, unembellished by the conventions of fiction, no matter how mean and crummy they were, and to portray them in the real language of everyday life and thought. He succeeds darkly and brilliantly in Death on the Installment Plan, yet it is also a sweet kind of book, a young boy's coming-of-age tale, struggling with his parents an
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Manufacturer: New Directions
Release date: 17 January 1971
ISBN-10 : 0811200175 | ISBN-13: 9780811200172
Release date: 17 January 1971
ISBN-10 : 0811200175 | ISBN-13: 9780811200172
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Just Another Book Diary (2023) (176 books items)"26.8. Classic Celine, nightmarish atmosphere with macabre humorous edge. Not quite as good as his debut, but it's still highly intriguing."
Darth Brutus rated this 10/10 8 months, 1 week ago