Castle to Castle - Couverture souple

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 156478150X ISBN 13 : 9781564781505

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 1997

Synopsis

With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, Céeacute;line paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition.

Castle to Castle is the often hilarious account of a baggage-train of highly-placed Nazis from the former German-occupied countries. As the allies advance, so were these important traitors moved from one château to another and then from schloss to schloss. Céline describes the tension, apprehension and bickering which dominated these men, fallen from power. This translation won a National Book Award.

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À propos des auteurs

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.

Ralph Manheim (b. New York, 1907) was an American translator of German and French literature. His translating career began with a translation of Mein Kempf in which Manheim set out to reproduce Hitler's idiosyncratic, often grammatically aberrant style. In collaboration with John Willett, Manheim translated the works of Bertolt Brecht. The Pen/Ralph Manheim Medal for translation, inaugurated in his name, is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. He himself won its predecessor, the PEN translation prize, in 1964. Manheim died in Cambridge in 1992. He was 85.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 156478150X
• ISBN 13: 9781564781505
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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• Personne responsable: non disponible