false 106096 23 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 <I>Death on the Installment Plan,</I> yet it is also a sweet kind of book, a young boy's coming-of-age tale, struggling with his parents and looking for his own kind of personal freedom. 881096 book 6 1971 Death on the Installment Plan total:742|5:342|4:245|3:117|2:22|1:16| 742 3101 1179 69 1 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Sep 13 07:22:57 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 07:30:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Thu Apr 10 17:00:06 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 17:21:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 13:53:37 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 16:26:20 -0700 2009 Journey to the End of the Night can be read equally well by itself. In it, ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 04 12:52:42 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 30 01:18:55 -0700 2008

yet he does..

the manic lyric matures here...fragmented...
.one finds oneself gasping for air at times..

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Every Celine book (and I read damn near all of them) is like that, brutally hilarious, no holds barred cynicism mixed with agonisingly depressing social commentary.
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