''Castle to Castle'' is the English title of the 1957 novel by

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, titled in French ''D'un château l'autre''. The book features Céline's experiences in exile with the Vichy French government at

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, Germany, towards the end of

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. One of the characters which appears is the actor

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, a fellow collaborator. For the first U.S. edition, translator

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won the 1970

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in category Translation."National Book Awards – 1970"

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. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
There was a "Translation" award from 1967 to 1983.

Legacy

''Castle to Castle'' was mentioned in a biography of Jack Kerouac, ''Subterranean Kerouac'' by

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(St. Martin's Press, 1998). Kerouac was at dinner with

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and

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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

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and Gaëtan Brizzi, along with Céline's other novels ''

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'' and '' Rigadoon''.

References

1957 novels Novels by Louis-Ferdinand Céline French autobiographical novels Novels about Nazi Germany Novels adapted into comics Éditions Gallimard books Vichy France in fiction {{1950s-WWII-novel-stub