An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Erl-King is a magisterial tale of innocence, perversion and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to adult misfit - a man without a sense of belonging until he finds himself a prisoner of war, and then a teacher, and then the 'ogre' of a Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn. Taking us more deeply into the dark heart of fascism than any novel since The Tin Drum, Tournier's masterpiece rivets us until the very last page, when Abel meets his mystic fate in the collapsing ruins of the Third Reich; it is a novel that shocks us, dazzles us, and above all holds us spellbound.
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Michel Tournier is one of France's greatest living writers, winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Academie francaise in 1967 for Friday and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. A member of the Academie Goncourt, Michel Tournier currently lives in Choisel.
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Reread after 25 years - a 'tour de force' brimming with ideas , wonderful prose ( to my eye/ear) and an amazing story - most unlike any book I have ever read - I would pronably include it if there was a book version of Dessert Island disks ! Enjoyed more 2nd time round being a lot older and hopefully a little wiser - it was a very old 2nd hand copy and the pages have gone orange but as they say " Don't judge abook by it's cover " wonderful...............
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Absolutely disturbing, absolutely magnificent
24 Feb 2001
By Yavuz Noyan Konnolu
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Erl king is the story of Abel, an ogre by definition, a man who likes young boys, flesh and blood. In a book cast with dreams of allegories, eating becomes devouring and shadows turn into evil spirits tyring to steal young souls away. Narrated by a crippled mind, "Erl king" takes place in WW2 France and Germany, where the frenzy of a lost soul is agonized by the fury of a generation, sacrificing their sons for a lost ideal, taking away Ogre's only meal...
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i found this one of the most profoundly disturbing books i have ever read. some glimpses of beauty with a continuum of terror. difficult to believe that it came from the same hand as that which wrote the brilliant "four wise men". after reading i threw it away so that no one else could read it.......
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