by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498677751
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«De un castillo a otro» is the autobiographical novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by RBA in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
In 1944, after the liberation of France, the Germans move a group of Vichy regime collaborators to Sigmaringen. More than a thousand people are crammed into the castle, including Céline himself, his wife, his cat and an actor friend. With black humor and cynicism, the novel portrays chaos, defeat and human misery.
Originally «D'un château l'autre» (1957), it is the first part of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's exile trilogy; translated by Carmen Kurtz.
For readers of twentieth-century fiction who appreciate a corrosive view of exile and defeat.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
