Death on the Installment Plan

Death on the Installment Plan (1936) is a novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, following his acclaimed Journey to the End of the Night. This work, like his first, presents a bleak and amoral view of the world, devoid of decency and value. The novel is characterized by Céline's distinctive, vehement, and disjointed prose style, which marked him as an innovator in 20th-century French literature. Céline, a physician, was known for his misanthropy and antisemitism, which became increasingly prominent in his later works. Despite the controversial nature of his views, his literary talent was widely recognized.1