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  Death on Credit (Paperback) By (author) Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Translated by Ralph Manheim

  

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  Short Description for Death on CreditFerdinand Bardamu is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but who take every advantage of his availability. The action is not continuous but goes back in time to earlier memories and often moves into fantasy, especially in Bardamu's sexual escapades.
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  • Publisher: Oneworld Classics Ltd
  • Published: 25 November 2009
  • Format: Paperback 580 pages
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  • Categories: Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9781847490414 ISBN 10: 1847490417
  • Sales rank: 136,211

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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". Both were a new kind of novel, frank about the author's thoughts and actions in a ways that readers had never encountered, ultra-realistic, and full of incidents that could not possibly be true to life, characters that stretched the imagination in spite of their having obviously been drawn from life.In "Death on Credit" Ferdinand Bardamu, Celine's alter ego, is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but who take every advantage of his availability. The action is not continuous but goes back in time to earlier memories and often moves into fantasy, especially in Bardamu's sexual escapades; the style becomes deliberately rougher and sentences disintegrate to catch the flavour of the teeming world of everyday Parisian tragedies, struggles to make a living, illness, venereal disease, the sordid stories of families whose destiny is governed by their own stupidity, malice, lust and greed. This fascinating book by one of the greatest 20th Century novelists is an unforgettable experience for the reader.