{"id":272486,"date":"2009-07-14T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/07\/14\/latest-review-the-vampire-of-ropraz-by-jacques-chessex\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:10:06","slug":"latest-review-the-vampire-of-ropraz-by-jacques-chessex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/07\/14\/latest-review-the-vampire-of-ropraz-by-jacques-chessex\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "The Vampire of Ropraz" by Jacques Chessex"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition to our review section is a piece on Jacques Chessex’s The Vampire of Ropraz<\/em>, a curious little book from one of Switzerland’s most revered authors. <\/p>\n

Here’s the opening of the review:<\/p>\n

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If it weren’t for Michael Orthofer of Complete Review, I don’t think I would’ve ever picked up this slender book. I don’t mind my vampires on TV (True Blood<\/em> is a pretty decent show), but I tend to avoid them in literature. (No, I haven’t read Twilight<\/em> and probably never will.) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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But this isn’t a vampire book. Sure, it’s got the spooky cover and the sadistic crimes, but this novel isn’t about anyone sucking anyone’s blood. It’s about society and fear, and finding a way to explain and cope with things that are beyond normal comprehension.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The novel is set in Ropraz—“a land of wolves and neglect in the early twentieth century, poorly served by public transport”—where a young girl is dug up from her grave and mutilated. Newspapers seize on the sensational story, labeling the criminal who did this as the “Vampire of Ropraz,” and setting off a series of “sightings” and a hell of a lot of fear:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And click here<\/a> for the full write up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest addition to our review section is a piece on Jacques Chessex’s The Vampire of Ropraz, a curious little book from one of Switzerland’s most revered authors. Here’s the opening of the review: If it weren’t for Michael Orthofer of Complete Review, I don’t think I would’ve ever picked up this slender book. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[25786,7666,25746,1646,25766,25756,25776],"class_list":["post-272486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-bitter-lemon-press","tag-chad-w-post","tag-jacques-chessex","tag-review","tag-swiss-literature","tag-vampire-of-ropraz","tag-w-donald-wilson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313296,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272486\/revisions\/313296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}