Castle to Castle
First US edition (1968) | |
Author | Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
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Original title | D'un château l'autre |
Translator | Ralph Manheim (1968) |
Cover artist | Paul Bonet |
Language | French |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Gallimard (France) Delacorte Press (US) |
Publication date | 12 June 1957 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1968 |
Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
Pages | 315 |
ISBN | 978-2-07-021310-8 |
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.[1]
It was adapted into the 2015 graphic novel La Cavale du Dr Destouches by Paul Brizzi and Gaëtan Brizzi, along with Céline's other novels North and Rigadoon .[2]
References
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"National Book Awards – 1970". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012年03月11日.
There was a "Translation" award from 1967 to 1983. - ^ "Gaëtan & Paul Brizzi".
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