It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified officials, their wives, mistresses, flunkies, and Nazi protectorsâ including CÃ Âline, his wife, their cat, and an actor friendâ attempt to postpone the postwar reckoning under the constant threat of air raids and starvation. With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, CÃ Âline paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of human society and the human condition.
,br>Called by Atlantic Monthly "the blackest of the black" of CÃ Âline's novels and hailed by the Washington Post Book World for its "intense sympathy with individual human beings," Castle to Castle is brilliantly rendered in Ralph Manheim's translation, for which he won the National Book Award.
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Celine fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Condemned by default (1950) in France to one year of imprisonment and declared a national disgrace, Celine returned to France after his pardon in 1951, where he continued to write until his death. His classic books include Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, London Bridge, North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, Castle to Castle, and Normance.
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Condition: Muy bueno. : En esta explosiva novela, ambientada en un castillo en Alemania cerca del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, fascistas franceses se refugian, entre ellos, Céline y su esposa Lili, el actor Robert Le Vigan, Pierre Laval y Henri Pétain, y una extraña asamblea de místicos, prostitutas y estafadores, todos juntos en los pasajes secretos y cámaras subterráneas de la laberíntica estructura. Con un trasfondo de excitación sensual, Céline pinta una imagen casi insoportablemente vívida de la sociedad humana y la condición humana. EAN: 9780140043419 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Castle to Castle Autor: Louis-Ferdinand Celine Editorial: Penguin Idioma: en Páginas: 359 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-03-19-268e484e
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