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Jacques Chessex, born in 1934, won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize for his novel L'Ogre. He is considered one of Switzerland's greatest authors, a novelist, poet, essayist and winner of the French Literature Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise.
"""A superb novel, hard as a winter in these landscapes of dark forests, where an atmosphere of prejudice and violence envelops the reader"" L'Express""An admirable story teller, Chessex surprises again with this terrifying portrait of a region, of an era and of a man with a strange destiny."" Livres Hebdo""It's beautiful; it's pure, like a blue sky over a black forest. Giono without garlic and olives."" Le Point""Far from just telling us a simple story Chessex has had the intelligence to integrate a dose of poetry, of the aesthetics of sin, and of the metaphysics of the monster."" Lire"
