Volume 8, Number 11 · June 15, 1967
Man Without Art
By Denis Donoghue
Death on the Installment Plan
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
New Directions, 592 pp., $7.50
Céline and His Vision
by Erika Ostrovsky
New York University, 225 pp., $2.25 (paper)
In Journey to the End of the Night the narrator, Bardamu, takes up a seedy practice as a doctor in Garenne-Rancy, 'When you live in Rancy, you don't even realise how sad you have become.' One day he attends to Bébert, the concierge's nephew. There will be no fee. In the suburbs the doctor is never paid. These sick people, he tells himself, 'showed me, one after another, all the horrible deformities hidden away in their hearts which they revealed to no one but me':
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