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Wikipedia article
'Castle to Castle' is the English title of the 1957 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Cline, titled in French 'D'un chteau l'autre'. The book features Cline's experiences in exile with the Vichy French government at Sigmaringen, Germany, towards the end of World War II. One of the characters which appears is the actor Robert Le Vigan, a fellow collaborator.
For the first U.S. edition, translator Ralph Manheim won the 1970 National Book Award in category Translation.
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1970 "National Book Awards 1970"]. National Book Foundation. 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 Ellis Amburn (St. Martin's Press, 1998). Kerouac was at dinner with Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows at their apartment when he described Cline's work as "a portrait of existence as rotten and mad" (p. 301).
It was also adapted into a graphic novel by Paul Brizzi and Gatan Brizzi, along with Cline's other novels 'North' and 'Rigadoon'.
References
Category:1957 novels
Category:Novels by Louis-Ferdinand Cline
Category:French autobiographical novels
Category:Novels about Nazi Germany
Category:Novels adapted into comics
Category:ditions Gallimard books
Category:Vichy France in fiction
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