by Louis-Ferdinand Celine · Gallimard Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070376926
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«Mort à crédit» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Gallimard in paperback (622 pages, in French).
The novel semi-autobiographically recreates Céline's childhood and youth in late 19th-century Paris: poverty, illness and desperation around the small family shop. His style, marked by slang, ellipsis and broken syntax, conveys a chaotic and hostile world.
Second installment of the Ferdinand Bardamu series, continuing Voyage au bout de la nuit; the novel was originally published in 1936.
It is a classic of 20th-century French literature, for readers interested in the work of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
