by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429726923
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«Mort a crèdit» is the novel by French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (464 pages, in Catalan).
The plot follows the childhood and youth of Ferdinand Bardamu, raised in an oppressive family environment and in an absurd world where misery and ugliness prevail. With some autobiographical touches, Céline questions the optimism of the Belle Époque and describes the collective difficulty of fitting into a new and demanding century.
Second instalment of the Ferdinand Bardamu series, with a Catalan translation by Joan Casas. Originally published in 1936; this edition is from 1987 and belongs to the MOLU s.XX collection.
For readers of twentieth-century French literature and of coming-of-age novels with a critical view of society.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
