Death on Credit

“The most blackly humourous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature...” London Review of Books

In Death on Credit, Ferdinand Bardamu, Céline’s alter ego, is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but who take every advantage of his availability. Céline’s rough-edged prose, with sentences prone to disintegration, gives the raw flavour of the teeming world of everyday Parisian tragedies, the struggle to make a living, illness, venereal disease, the sordid stories of families whose destiny is governed by their own stupidity, malice, lust and greed.

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