num_pages: 373
description: An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to "ogre" of the Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn, taking us deeper into the dark heart of fascism than any novel since The Tin Drum. Until the very last page, when Abel meets his mystic fate in the collapsing ruins of the Third Reich, it shocks us, dazzles us, and above all holds us spellbound.
language: German
title: Der Erlkönig
titlecomplete: Der Erlkönig
characters: Abel Tiffauges, Hermann Göring
genres: Novels, Roman, Historical Fiction, France, World War II, French Literature, Classics, Fiction, War, Literature
ratings_count: 2062
places: East Prussia, France
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Prix Goncourt, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Scott Moncrieff Prize
category: Barbara Bray
publisher: Fischer