Tyrant (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Utgivningsdatum
2012-03-15
Förlag
Bitter Lemon Press
Översättare
Martin Sokolinsky
Dimensioner
196 x 127 x 18 mm
Vikt
200 g
ISBN
9781904738947

Tyrant

av Jacques Chessex
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-03-15
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A haunting work, reminiscent of Albert Camus, which portrays with exquisite psychological detail the emotional crisis in the life of a young Swiss schoolteacher. His father's prodigious vitality and virility had crushed his family and ruined his son's childhood. Even after his death the parental ogre haunts his son, sucking him into a vortex of despair. Fits with the contemporary success of autobiographical novels, focused on a tormented childhood, parental persecution and the loneliness of the outlier. Chessex's book is based on the character of his own father, his totalitarian and austere Calvinist upbringing and his escape to the sensual world of serial seduction. These motifs and the meditation on death have informed most of his fiction, especially "The Tyrant", his most successful book by far with 450,000 copies sold.
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Chessex is a giant of Swiss literature. In 1973 He obtained the Prix Goncourt for the novel L'Ogre. In 1992, he obtained the Mallarme Prize for poetry for Les Aveugles du seul regard, as well as the Grand Prize of the Fondation Vaudoise pour la creation artistique. In 1999, he was awarded the Grand Prix de la langue francaise, and the Goncourt poetry grant for Allegria. In 2007, he was awarded the Grand Prix Jean Giono for his entire work. Chessex suffered a heart attack and collapsed during a public discussion on 9 October 2009 about his play The Confession of Father Burg.

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