[PDF] Death On The Installment Plan eBook

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1971-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811223604

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Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night. 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 : Philip H. Solomon
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1992
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ISBN : 9780872498143

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Solomon examines the principal themes and structures of the novels of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine, taking into account his theatre, anti-Semitic pamphlets, and critical works. A biographical introduction and a chronology note the historical and private events that shaped the author's life and influenced his development as a writer. An overview of Celine's writings explores the author's vision of the human condition and his perception of the redemptive value of the work of art by which the disorder of life is resolved by the order of writing. Emphasis is placed on the self-reflective nature of Celine's fiction, particularly on the function of the mythologized head wound to express the transition between autobiography and fiction. Each of the volume's principal chapters is devoted to an individual novel or closely related group of novels, considered in chronological order. A brief plot summary and indication of the work's particular relevance for the reader precedes the analysis of the text. Each work, from Journey to the End of the Night to Rigadoon, is considered not only with respect to its intrinsic interest but also in terms of its describing a phase in the apprenticeship of life that Celine's picaresque protagonist undergoes as he is progressively stripped of his illusions and comes to resemble the narrator more closely.

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : France
ISBN :

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When Celine's first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its horrified opponents. Four years later came the sequel, Death on Credit.

Author : David Wilkerson
Publisher : Chosen Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080079446X

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Presents the story of a small-town pastor who found his real ministry among the street gangs of New York and succeeded in founding the Teen Challenge movement.

Author : Lawrence D. Kritzman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2006
Category : France
ISBN : 9780231107907

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This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.