Cronus' Children

Yves Navarre. Calder Publications, $19.95 (319pp) ISBN 978-0-7145-4014-6

``Elegant, thoughtful and deeply tragic, this Prix Goncourt winner plays infinite variations on the story of Cronus, the Titan overthrown by his son Zeus.'' Here Cronus is a bourgeois minister in the French government, Henri Prouillan, age 74. ``The book is difficult to read, yet hard to put down, because the truth is seeks to reveal is bitter and undeniable and the emotions it lays bare are universal,'' commented PW . (Sept.)