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Jacques Chessex: Calvinism and the Text

Calvinism and the Text [Paperback]

by David J Bond

    • Author

      David J Bond

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publis

    • Published

      January 2014

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      Jacques Chessex: Calvinism and the Text

      Today's Price £24.58



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      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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      • Author

        David J Bond

      • Book Format

        Paperback / softback

      • Publisher

        University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publis

      • Published

        January 2014

      • Weight

        350g

      • Page Count

        214

      • Dimensions

        170 x 245 x 12 mm

      • ISBN

        9781442652088

      • ISBN-10

        144265208X

      • Eden Code

        4474093

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      • Author/Creator: David J Bond

      • ISBN: 9781442652088

      • Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publis

      • Release Date: January 2014

      • Weight: 350g

      • Dimensions: 170 x 245 x 12 mm

      • Eden Code: 4474093


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