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    <body><![CDATA[This is, honestly, the only book I've ever read that I regret reading. I've read a lot of silly tripe in my day--Tolkien-rip-off fantasy novels, inane historical romances, a few teen devotionals, a shoebox full of Sweet Valley High books--but this is the one book in which I found no redeeming virtue...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6141528">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The master of the ellipse, Celine recounts his tragi-comic career as a youth and doctor in the Paris suburb of Montemartre. If you know Celine, this is his darkest but, in my opinion , most beautifully and vividly written novel. He spins and sputters off into an inner world that has great clarity co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19897585">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wherever I go lately in literature, it seems the French have been there first. Today's episode of this might be called, &quot;How the French saved Modernism from itself.&quot;  Or at least, how Céline did. This companion to <em>Journey to the End of the Night</em> can be read equally well by itself. In it, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53747886">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to imagine he could write a more explosive novel than&quot;Journey&quot;....<br/><br/><br/>yet he does..<br/><br/>the manic lyric matures here...fragmented...<br/>.one finds oneself gasping for air at times..<br/><br/>There are moments when the language is so powerful and musical that e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17004092">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[کتاب بسیار کثیفی بود. سرشار از تلخی و سیاهی زندگی. انگار قهرمان کتاب هیچ بهره ای از روی خوش زندگی نبرده باشد. به شدت درباره تیرگی ها اغرق کرده و به هیچ وجه حتی یک بار از ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40130057">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Some people find Celine's (exaggerated) account of his childhood depressing. I thought it was a riot, laughing out loud many times while reading. Probably just a matter of one's taste for dark comedy. The story is a similar form to his earlier Journey to the End of the Night, but the sentence struct...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81476806">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[مرگ قسطی یک رمان بی‌نظیره. و نه حتا کم‌نظیر. متفاوت، لاابالی، بی‌رحم و شگفت‌انگیز. موقع خوندن‌ به طرز وحشتناکی درگیر این رمان شدم و هنوز هم خوندن مرگ قسطی یکی از به...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/915785">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Deuxième grand roman de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, <em>Mort à crédit</em>, publié en 1936, raconte l'enfance du Bardamu de <em>Voyage au bout de la nuit</em>, paru quatre ans auparavant. Après un prologue situant son présent, médecin dans les années trente, le héros narrateur, Ferdinand, se rappelle ses jeunes années, dans un milieu petit bourgeois, vers 1900. Il est fils unique, élevé dans un passage parisien entre une grand-mère éducatrice fine et intuitive, une mère sacrificielle propriétaire d'un petit magasin de dentelles et objets de curiosité et un père violent et acariâtre, employé dans une compagnie d'assurances. Il grandit maladroitement, sans cesse victime des reproches amers de ses parents, multiplie les apprentissages et les échecs sentimentaux et professionnels, séjourne dans un collège anglais avant de voir son destin basculer avec la rencontre d'un inventeur loufoque, Léonard de Vinci de la fumisterie scientifique, pour vivre des aventures toujours tragi-comiques...   <p>Texte des origines, marqué par le sceau de l'image maternelle, <em>Mort à crédit</em> est un parcours initiatique, tout en violence et en émotion, où les souvenirs s'accompagnent des misères et des révoltes de l'enfance. C'est aussi une formidable évocation de Paris au tournant du siècle, drôle et riche de cocasseries irrésistibles, dans un style propre à Céline, fait d'exclamation, cassant la syntaxe traditionnelle, transposant le parler populaire dru et vert dans le langage écrit. <em>--Céline Darner</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>If you haven't been through that you'll never know what obsessive hatred really smells like...the hatred that goes through your guts, all the way to your heart...Real hatred comes from deep down, from a defenseless childhood crushed with work. That's the hatred that kills you. There'll be more of it...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78865343">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The funniest book I've ever read. <br/>Simultaneously one of the most depressing. <br/>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. <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA['Death On The Installment Plan' is a raging animal of a novel that eclipses even Celine's own 'Journey' (though, it must be said, not by much). Structurally it's a shambles, but the unbelievable energy behind each &amp; every sentence is enough to propel the reader straight through the 600-odd pages. Wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62473601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not nearly as good as Journey. Its not the &quot;disintegrated&quot; style that's a problem, but the lack of insight or beauty in the writing (not sure how much the translation obscures). Pedestrian observations will not be uplifted by ellipses or any other punctuation method... a stream of boring t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43711321">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What an asshole. What a pig. What a bigot. But jesus, can he write. This is a good one to pick up and just read passages from anywhere then set down when you just can't take it anymore. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Deuxième grand roman de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, <em>Mort à crédit</em>, publié en 1936, raconte l'enfance du Bardamu de <em>Voyage au bout de la nuit</em>, paru quatre ans auparavant. Après un prologue situant son présent, médecin dans les années trente, le héros narrateur, Ferdinand, se rappelle ses jeunes années, dans un milieu petit bourgeois, vers 1900. Il est fils unique, élevé dans un passage parisien entre une grand-mère éducatrice fine et intuitive, une mère sacrificielle propriétaire d'un petit magasin de dentelles et objets de curiosité et un père violent et acariâtre, employé dans une compagnie d'assurances. Il grandit maladroitement, sans cesse victime des reproches amers de ses parents, multiplie les apprentissages et les échecs sentimentaux et professionnels, séjourne dans un collège anglais avant de voir son destin basculer avec la rencontre d'un inventeur loufoque, Léonard de Vinci de la fumisterie scientifique, pour vivre des aventures toujours tragi-comiques...   <p>Texte des origines, marqué par le sceau de l'image maternelle, <em>Mort à crédit</em> est un parcours initiatique, tout en violence et en émotion, où les souvenirs s'accompagnent des misères et des révoltes de l'enfance. C'est aussi une formidable évocation de Paris au tournant du siècle, drôle et riche de cocasseries irrésistibles, dans un style propre à Céline, fait d'exclamation, cassant la syntaxe traditionnelle, transposant le parler populaire dru et vert dans le langage écrit. <em>--Céline Darner</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[همان سلین همیشگی <br/>با قدرت <br/>و بی رحم <br/>همچون زندگی <br/><br/>و اینبار در کتابی به نام مرگ قسطی ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is the matter of the use of ellipses that seems to come up when I read discussions of this novel.  It is indicative of the author's approach, where typical elements of literature get subsumed by the relentless onslaught of negative imagery and reality is treated merely as the mechanism that in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42038978">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the fact that this is a foreign language translation of the &quot;stream of conscious&quot; style of writing style has probably killed any chance at me getting into the book. Stream of Conscious is not *my* favorite, and after several attempts I have given this book a pass. It's not for ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53218801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In this follow-up volume to Journey to the End of Night, Céline steps back and develops the fundamentally warped background of his hero in a strange and often very funny narrative replete with more ellipses than ten other novels. As in the first novel, Celine's characters are wonderfully drawn thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71300226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[hard to get into, much less of a storyline than Journey to the End of the Night, more wandering bullshit and less direction -- hence, you're reading a page and can't even recall what you're reading about (or why).  However, he still knows how to write, and I am plucking and plagairizing his lines on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46428340">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Brokenhearted bravery from an author whose hard life eventually twisted him into hatred and fear. This one, though, is testament to who he was. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.<br/><br/>I wanted to like this, but I found the noxious, rambling style a little too much to take.]]></body>
    
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