Death on Credit
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798649676403
- Series
- Death on Credit
- Pages
- 535
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-05-30
- Author
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Description
Second great novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Death on credit, published in 1936, recounts the childhood of Bardamu of "journey to the edge of the night", published four years ago. After a prologue situating his present, a doctor in the thirties, the narrating hero, Ferdinand, remembers his younger days, in a middle-class environment, around 1900. He is an only son, raised in a Parisian passage between an educating, fine and intuitive grandmother, a sacrificial mother owner of a small store of lace and objects of curiosity and a violent and rascal father, employed in an insurance company. He grew awkwardly, constantly victim of the bitter reproaches of his parents, multiplies the learnings and the sentimental and professional failures, stays in an English college before seeing his destiny rock with the meeting of a wacky inventor, Leonardo da Vinci of the fumisterie scientist, to always live tragicomic adventures ... Text of the origins, marked by the seal of the maternal image, Death on credit is an initiatory journey, all in violence and emotion, where memories are accompanied by the miseries and revolts of childhood.
