Castle to Castle

Castle to Castle
Author Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Original title D'un château l'autre
Translator Ralph Manheim (1968)
Cover artist Paul Bonet
Country France
Language French
Genre Novel
Publisher Gallimard
Publication date
 12 June 1957
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.

For the first U.S. edition, translator Ralph Manheim won the 1970 National Book Award in category Translation.[1]

Legacy

Castle to Castle was mentioned in the biography of Jack Kerouac, Subterranean Kerouac by Ellis Amburn (St. Martin's Press, 1998). Kerouac was at dinner with Steve Allen 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 by Paul Brizzi and Gaëtan Brizzi, along with Céline's other novels North and Rigadoon.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "National Book Awards – 1970". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
    There was a "Translation" award from 1967 to 1983.
  2. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brizzi_gaetan_paul.htm


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