by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435011723
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In 'From one castle to another', Louis-Ferdinand Céline transports us to the end of World War II, where a group of collaborators from the Vichy government take refuge in Sigmaringen Castle after the liberation of France. The novel, with an autobiographical style and biting humor, describes the chaos and despair of a Europe in ruins, with characters such as the Vichy ministers and the Germans in panic. Céline harshly narrates the defeat and human miseries, turning this first volume of the 'Northern Trilogy' into a devastating and visceral work.
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."
