''Castle to Castle'' is the English title of the 1957 novel by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, titled in French ''D'un château l'autre''. The book features Céline's experiences in exile with the
Vichy French government at
Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen ( Swabian: ''Semmerenga'') is a town in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Situated on the upper Danube, it is the capital of the Sigmaringen district.
Sigmaringen is renowned for its castle, Schloss Sigmaring ...
, Germany, towards the end of
World War II. One of the characters which appears is the actor
Robert Le Vigan
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He appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic ...
, a fellow collaborator.
For the first U.S. edition, translator
Ralph Manheim won the 1970
National Book Award in
category Translation.
["National Book Awards – 1970"]
National Book Foundation
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. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
There was a "Translation" award from 1967 to 1983.
Legacy
''Castle to Castle'' was mentioned in a biography of
Jack Kerouac, ''Subterranean Kerouac'' by
Ellis Amburn
Ellis Edward Amburn (2 August 1933 – 18 August 2018) was an American book editor and biographer.
Life
A 1954 graduate of Texas Christian University, Ellis Amburn worked as a reporter for ''Newsweek'' before going into the book publishing indust ...
(St. Martin's Press, 1998). Kerouac was at dinner with
Steve Allen
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and
Jayne Meadows at their apartment when he described Céline's work as "a portrait of existence as rotten and mad" (p. 301).
It was also adapted into a
graphic novel
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by
Paul Brizzi and
Gaëtan Brizzi
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, along with Céline's other novels ''
North
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Etymology
The word ''north'' is ...
'' and ''
Rigadoon''.
References
1957 novels
Novels by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French autobiographical novels
Novels about Nazi Germany
Novels adapted into comics
Éditions Gallimard books
Vichy France in fiction
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