# The Erl-King

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- Book: [The Erl-King](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-tournier/the-erl-king) ([The Erl-King.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-tournier/the-erl-king.md))
- Authors: [Michel Tournier](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-tournier)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4887-853-2
- Published: 2014-08-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Erl-King is a magisterial tale of innocence, perversion and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to adult misfit – a man without a sense of belonging until he finds himself a prisoner of war, and then a teacher, and then the ‘ogre’ of a Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn. Taking us more deeply into the dark heart of fascism than any novel since The Tin Drum , Tournier’s masterpiece rivets us until the very last page, when Abel meets his mystic fate in the collapsing ruins of the Third Reich; it is a novel that shocks us, dazzles us, and above all holds us spellbound.