Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to
Louis-Ferdinand Celine'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. 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."
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