About this title: An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, "The Ogre" follows the passage of Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to "ogre" of the Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn.
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Description: Near Very Good. 5.5 x 8 trade paperback book. Black lettering on the white spine with an illustrated cover. The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. 373 pages. 1st Paperback Edition. Underlining and markings throughout. Very little soil and wear. Tight binding. Near Very Good condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. The dust jacket is in mylar and has small creases and a purple band running along the bottom. The cover has small rubs. Pages are free of underlining and highlighting. Standard library markings. Text in English, French. 373 p. 22 cm. Translation of Le roi des Aulnes. Includes bibliographical references. read more
Edition: First Pantheon Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780394724072ISBN:0394724070
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Shelfwear, few chips and scratches on cover, foxing throughout, unread, else new. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 373 p. Pantheon Modern Writers. Audience: General/trade. "The most important book to come out of France since Proust. "-Janet Flanner read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 373 p. Pantheon Modern Writers. Audience: General/trade. In great condition. Cracked cover. Some notes in book. read more
Description: Acceptable. 1972-Paperback----Used-Acceptable-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780801855900ISBN:080185590X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1972
Description: Fine in new dust jacket. Ex-library. book tight clean, bright pages, dj bright shiny, under mylar. Text in English, French. 373 p. 22 cm. Translation of Le roi des Aulnes. Includes bibliographical references. read more
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co, New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Very Good; pages are clean and bright, library id tag on FFEP; Very Good/Very Good; dustjacket in mylar, ex library book, boards are strong and binding is tight. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Very Good. 0394724070 paperback in very good condition. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Cover has slight shelf wear. Appears gently read. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1984-03-12
ISBN-13:9780394724072ISBN:0394724070
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1972
Description: Hard cover, Minor Wear. Near Fine, Minor Wear w/age/DJ Good, Mild soiling and Wear. First US Edition. Previous owners bookplate has been ripped off. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801855900ISBN:080185590X
Description: Good. 080185590X Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive scho... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801855900ISBN:080185590X
Description: New. 080185590X Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"Since The Ogre is a book obsessed with taxonomy, heraldry, classification of all kinds, I'll start by saying that the author MIchel Tournier most reminds me of is Thomas Mann. Mann's playful, ironic fictions seem to have fallen out of use these days (I for one can't get over Guy Davenport's comparison of him to James Joyce: "Mann imposes meaning; Joyce finds it; Mann looks for weakness in strength; Joyce, for strength in weakness. Mann's novels illustrate ideas; Joyce's return ideas to their origins."); but reading The Ogre, I was reminded again of how incredibly fun it is to move around in a novel whose reserves are charged, rather than sapped, by a sense of ideal forms. At times, for all its storytelling and scene-setting and narrative capability, this book seems to be more of an ecology than even the most experimental nouveaux romans. Indeed, by the end of it, I got the sense that Tournier is not just system-obsessed, but system-haunted, and that the pages upon pages detailing the main character's private universe were put there as a way to make us see how a modern-day Crusoe (that is, a person who feels completely cut off from human connection) might go about surviving. Loneliness. This book is very lonely. It is also, I think, a testament and warning to anyone who ever spent a year and a half trying to learn Elvish (followed by Dark Elvish, Klingon, and - probably because it was the most strange and "made up sounding" of the languages that my high school offered - Russian). What happens when the world you make in your head takes over? Or, to put it more even handedly (I hope), How do we light the mental/emotional candelabra inside us without eclipsing the very real and consequential world outside us? How do we keep from destroying/being destroyed? In places, Tournier's book may be in a little too much of a hurry the answer these questions, to follow the arrow of its logic. I wanted more of the tide pools. But the last fifty pages or so are legitimately visionary and horrible, an inverted King Matt the First, and worth the momentum."
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