Death on the Installment Plan Japanese Constantly on the edge of

Constantly on the edge of annihilation

But for every step that presents a struggle

Civilization’s Pathological Endgame

This turns out to be no easy task

Death on the Installment Plan Japanese Constantly on the edge ofDeath on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis Ferdinand Clines earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called creative confessions, they told of the authors childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing