Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Keywords
autobiographical, writing, Calvinism
Abstract
Chessex's work is largely autobiographical, replete with the theme of the defiance of death, marked by contradictions, and boldly stressing immoderate and violent feelings, and yet his language is almost classical in its restraint. In 1963 Chessex was awarded the Schiller Prize and in 1973 the Goncourt Prize.
Recommended Citation
Schoeni, Ursula
(1982)
"Jacques Chessex (1934),"
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 18:
Iss.
2, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol18/iss2/9
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