Death on Credit

In the work "Death on Credit" (1936), the writer, unashamed in his expressions, harshly and tearfully describes all the ugliness of life at the Parisian bottom that he observed in his youth.

Reading about the militant amorality, you will feel the disgust of the surrounding environment with its hopelessness and lies in every pore. However, the novel evokes ambiguous emotions. On one hand, the scenes of absurdity and injustice awaken feelings of indignation and protest. On the other hand, it evokes a strange almost masochistic delight in the author's chaos.
But this is all of Céline, whose works still provoke fierce disputes and a cacophony of opinions.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline is a classic of 20th-century literature, a writer with a tragic fate, having a reputation as a misanthrope, anarchist, cynic, and extreme individualist. Accused of collaborating with the German occupation authorities during World War II, Céline was forced to flee to Germany, and then to Denmark, where he spent several post-war years: first in prison, and then in exile…