The Tyrant - formato ePub

Si les racines sentimentales de Jacques Chessex sont en Suisse, où il est né et où il vit aujourd’hui, ses racines intellectuelles sont en France. La France de Maupassant, mais aussi celle de Flaubert,...

« Je suis figé au bord de la route, mon père s'est arrêté lui aussi, maintenant il vient sur moi, il me saisit durement par le bras, le chapeau est baissé sur les yeux, sur les lunettes, le col du manteau...

Poème de dix chants soutenus qui se parlent en miroir, Comme l'os est une méditation aiguë où le sentiment métaphysique et la fascination des choses terrestres se rencontrent âprement dans la même respiration...

Hantée par le mauvais destin et la menace, c'est de ces dangers, des ruses transparentes du démon que chacune des trente-six nouvelles de ce livre tire un pouvoir d'ahurir et de troubler, qui est l'une...

"Incarnata est musica" : la phrase est de Mozart, en marge de ses carnets. Mozart, que jalousait Antonio Salieri tout comme le narrateur du récit de Jacques Chessex jalouse le grand Ramuz (1878-1947)....

" Qu'est-ce qui m'avait si fort lié à Benjamin qu'à plus d'un siècle près je me sentisse beaucoup plus que son contemporain, en vérité une sorte de double dans mon propre siècle, augmenté de mon avantage...

Royaume, " l'ardent royaume ", c'est le corps de Monna, sa beauté insolente et douce, mais c'est aussi l'enchaînement des plaisirs, des joies et des folies qu'y découvre Me Mange et qui vont le perdre.Car...

Carabas est un chant et un coup de poing. Jacques Chessex, qui avait un peu roulé sa bosse à Paris, a fixé ses quartiers définitifs dans son pays vaudois. Il est devenu l'un des écrivains romands les...

Le poète se lève tôt. Chaque matin, à Ropraz où il habite face aux montagnes, le voit s'abandonner à l'exercice qui consiste à rassembler sa pensée en peu de mots : « Ainsi j'apprends à être rien / A...

Né en 1934 à Payerne (Suisse), Jacques Chessex obtint le prix Goncourt avec L'Ogre en 1973. Romancier et poète il est l'auteur d'une oeuvre importante où on retiendra entre autres : La Trinité (1993),...

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Marie n'aime pas l'école et se lie d'amitié dans la forêt avec un chat sauvage. Le chat est fait prisonnier par le père de Marie et ses amis. Libéré par la petite fille, il l'invite à vivre avec lui en...

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