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D'un Château L'autre
''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, Germany, towards the end of World War II. One of the characters which appears is the actor Robert Le Vigan, a close friend. For the first U.S. edition, translator Ralph Manheim won the 1970 National Book Award in category Translation."National Book Awards – 1970" . Retrieved 2012-03-11. There was a "Translation" award from 1967 to 1983. It was adapted into the 2015 |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within Wikimedia project, sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by ''Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Winners Of The National Book Award
These authors and books have won the annual National Book Awards, awarded to American authors by the National Book Foundation based in the United States. History of categories The National Book Awards were first awarded to four 1935 publications in May 1936. Contrary to that historical fact, the National Book Foundation currently recognizes only a history of purely literary awards that begins in 1950. The #1935 to 1941, pre-war awards and the 1980 to 1983 #Graphics awards, graphics awards are covered below following the main list of current award categories. There have been five award categories since 2018: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature, and Translated Literature. The main list below is organized by the current award categories and by year. The categories' winners are selected from hundreds of preliminary nominees – "from 150 titles (Translated Literature) to upwards of 600 titles (Nonfiction)." Since 2013, a long list of ten entries for each of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Adapted Into Comics
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Autobiographical Novels
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Novels By Louis-Ferdinand Céline
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and Publication, published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek novel, Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term Romance (literary fiction) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 French Novels
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Rigadoon (novel)
''Rigadoon'' () is a novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published posthumously in 1969. The story is based on Céline's escape from France to Denmark after the invasion of Normandy, after he had been associated with the Vichy regime. It is the third part in a trilogy about these experiences; it was preceded by '' Castle to Castle'' from 1957 and ''North'' from 1960. Legacy It was also adapted into the 2015 graphic novel '' La Cavale du Dr Destouches'' by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, along with Céline's other novels ''North'' and '' Castle to Castle''. See also * 1969 in literature * 20th-century French literature 20th-century French literature is literature written in French from 1900 to 1999. For literature made after 1999, see the article Contemporary French literature. Many of the developments in French literature in this period parallel changes in ... References ;Notes ;Bibliography * 1969 French novels Novels by Louis-Ferdinand Céline French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North (novel)
''North'' () is a 1960 novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The story is based on Céline's escape from France to Denmark after the invasion of Normandy, after he had been associated with the Vichy regime. It is the second published part, although chronologically the first, in a trilogy about these experiences; it was preceded by '' Castle to Castle'' from 1957, and followed by '' Rigadoon'', published posthumously in 1969. It was the last book Céline published during his lifetime. Publication The book was published in 1960 through Éditions Gallimard. In the first edition, some of the characters have the same names as the real people who inspired them. Because of this, Céline was sued for defamation, and in subsequent editions all characters have fictional names. Legacy It was also adapted into the 2015 graphic novel '' La Cavale du Dr Destouches'' by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, along with Céline's other novels '' Castle to Castle'' and '' Rigadoon''. See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brizzi
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La Cavale Du Dr Destouches
''La Cavale du Dr Destouches'' () is a 2015 French comic book with scenario by Christophe Malavoy and art by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi. It is about the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline and his time with his wife Lucette and cat at the Sigmaringen enclave, where leaders and collaborators of Vichy France Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the Battle of France, ... gathered in 1944. The book is loosely based on Céline's novel trilogy about these events. It was published by Futuropolis on 10 September 2015. References External links Brizzi brothers {{DEFAULTSORT:Cavale du Dr Destouches 2015 French novels 2015 graphic novels French graphic novels Biographical graphic novels Comics based on novels Graphic novels set in France Vichy France in fiction Baden-Württemberg in fiction Fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
