by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811685616
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«Morte a credito» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Garzanti in paperback (558 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows Ferdinand through his childhood and adolescence in a suffocating family environment laden with resentment, where his grandmother Caroline and uncle Édouard stand out. Amid family, school, erotic, and work experiences, Céline displays an expressive and visionary prose that portrays the alienation caused by reality.
Novel originally published in 1936 under the title «Mort à crédit»; second installment of the «Ferdinand Bardamu» series, in a translation by Giorgio Caproni.
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."
