The Tyrant
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Suicide, Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Literary
| Author: | Jacques Chessex | ISBN: | 9781904738954 |
| Publisher: | Bitter Lemon Press | Publication: | April 10, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Bitter Lemon Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jacques Chessex |
| ISBN: | 9781904738954 |
| Publisher: | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Publication: | April 10, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Language: | English |
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The novel won the Goncourt Prize (in 1973, the first ever won by a non-French writer). It is a dark, literary, psychological work and not a crime novel in any shape or form.
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Should benefit from the success of ‘The Vampire of Ropraz’ and ‘A Jew Must Die’.
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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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The novel won the Goncourt Prize (in 1973, the first ever won by a non-French writer). It is a dark, literary, psychological work and not a crime novel in any shape or form.
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Should benefit from the success of ‘The Vampire of Ropraz’ and ‘A Jew Must Die’.
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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.
