Death on the Instalment Plan

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A REISSUE of the second volume in Celine’s epic of misanthropy, which has evoked superlatives from critics as diverse asGide, Trotsky, and Clifton Fadiman. H chronicles the Childhood and youth of a poor French boy, tormented by bis parents, bullied by his employers, hounded by society. The world, to Celine, is a jungle in which men prey upon each other like wild beasts. He writes with torrential eloquence and black humor, and his searing contempt for hypocrisy contains the antidote to his own nihilism. Death on the Instalment Flan is a considerable book.