I learned about this novel from two different sources: one, it won a big French literary prize–the Prix Goncourt–which helped me to generate a list of 20th century French writing I might want to check out, and two, another novel by Tournier was placed on Le Monde’s top 100 books of all time, which is not limited to French writing and contains some really interesting choices. This novel is a series of different voices, documents, and narratives that tell of “The Ogre,” Abel Tiffauges, who […]