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portada Jacques Chessex: Calvinism and the Text (University of Toronto Romance Series)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Year
2014
Language
English
Pages
214
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781442652088
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Jacques Chessex: Calvinism and the Text (University of Toronto Romance Series)

David J. Bond (Author) · · Paperback

Jacques Chessex: Calvinism and the Text (University of Toronto Romance Series) - David J. Bond

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Synopsis "Jacques Chessex: Calvinism and the Text (University of Toronto Romance Series) "

Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside France and Switzerland. With this book, David J. Bond provides the first comprehensive study of his work in any language—a study that reveals Chessex’s deep ambivalence towards his Calvinist heritage and his efforts to resolve this dilemma through his texts. Born in 1934 in Payerne, in the region of French-speaking Switzerland known as the Vaud, Chessex grew up amid the pervasive influence of the Calvinist church. His writing, which tells of Vaud society and the hypocrisy of many of its leading members, reveals his preoccupation with a rigid morality, sin, remorse, and death. Bond shows that while Chessex uses his texts to escape this heritage and affirm alternative values, particularly sexual pleasure and enjoyment of life, his writing reveals a deep nostalgia for the stability and security of a strict religious system in a world that he finds unstable and even absurd without it. Chessex looks to the text as a univocal organizing principle that might impose order and sense. Bond sees in Chessex’s writing an attempt to find unity in opposing values, to establish contact with others, and to overcome an obsession with death and the passing of time.

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