De un castillo a otro

Synopsis of De un castillo a otro

After the liberation of France, a group of Vichy government collaborators takes refuge in the castle of Sigmaringen, a labyrinthine place marked by the misery and chaos of war. Through a sweeping and syncopated prose, Louis-Ferdinand Céline narrates with irony and rawness the defeat, panic, and miseries of the human condition in this first volume of the Northern Trilogy. This work, halfway between a novel and an autobiographical confession, is a fundamental piece of 20th-century radical literature, offering a lucid and devastating vision of a Europe in ruins.