De Elzenkoning by Michel Tournier
The novel follows Abel Tiffauges, a solitary, myth-obsessed man whose childhood fantasies and affinity for animals lead him into an ambiguous complicity with the Nazi war machine; employed as a driver and caretaker, he becomes responsible for transporting children to supposed safety, convinced he is saving them while in fact enabling their fate. Blending folklore, psychological portraiture and moral ambiguity, the story probes how personal mythologies and language can blur the line between innocence and monstrous culpability in times of atrocity.
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- Published
- 1970
- Nationality
- French
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- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- De Elzenkoning
- Le Roi des Aulnes
- The Erl-King
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