by Louis-Ferdinand Celine · FOLIO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070367764
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«D'un château l'autre» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Folio in paperback (439 pages, in French).
Céline and his wife flee France at the end of the Second World War and take refuge in Sigmaringen Castle, with the remnants of the Vichy regime. Between confession and fiction, the novel portrays with irony and dark humor the degradation of the defeated, the powerless bureaucracy and the misery of exile, in a colloquial and stark style.
First installment of Céline's exile trilogy, completed by Nord (1960) and Rigodon (1969). Originally published in 1957.
Reading for those interested in twentieth-century French fiction, war classics and memoir literature.
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."
