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Death on the Installment Plan

Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

October 10, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you have read Journey to the End of the Night, you already know how that deeply unpleasant that novel is. If you haven’t already read this one, you don’t know yet how much more deeply unpleasant this novel is. But also it’s good? Well, that’s not easy to say exactly. The two novels together helped to break open that other part of life that novels often avoided for obvious reasons. These novels dwell in (though not exclusively) the sexual life of people, as well […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Louis-Ferdinand Celine

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:574 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Louis-Ferdinand Celine ·
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Some bad men

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

April 6, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Journey to the End of the Night – 4/5 Stars This one is a bitter pill. Not for me, but for the writer and character. I don’t know how much of this is a roman a clef, a veiled memoir, or a persona allowing the writer to hide within the text. But the novel itself is drenched in sarcasm, irony, cynicism, and disgust. We begin with our narrator finding his way into the army right near the beginning of WWI. This of course is not […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, philip roth

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:144 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, philip roth ·
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