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The Tyrant
A haunting work, reminiscent of Albert Camus, which portrays, with exquisite psychological detail, the emotional crisis in the life of Jean Calmet, a young Swiss schoolteacher. As we watch the father’s cremation in the opening chapter, we sense that, even though his father’s body has been reduced to ashes, his spirit survives to haunt Jean. His father’s prodigious vitality and virility had crushed his family and ruined his son’s childhood. Even after his father’s death, Jean cannot be free. The parental ogre’s actions continue to suck Jean into a vortex of despair.
Author Information
Jacques Chessex is one of Switzerland's great contemporary authors. He is revered in France and won the Prix Goncourt in 1973 for L'Ogre...
The Translator
Born in Brooklyn,NY, Martin Sokolinsky is a well known translator from French, Spanish and German. He is a retired CUNY teacher of English.
Praise for The Tyrant
'Perfectly captures the juxtaposition of the profound and the banal... ' Publishers Weekly
'This extraordinary work is a lean, modern narrative...its richness of language and intensity of feeling won the Goncourt' Independent
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