Tournier, Michel (Vol. 6) - Tournier, Michel 1924–
Tournier, Michel 1924–
A French novelist, Tournier received the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française for Friday and the Prix Goncourt for The Ogre. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 49-52.)
["Friday," a] new version of the Robinson Crusoe theme written … with implicit comment on Western civilization, past and present, is not a particularly attractive prospect. But M. Tournier is a cultivated and disciplined writer, and his Robinson, the son of a Yorkshire draper, is most likable. Cast up, like his precursor, on an island off the coast of Chile, he labors to build a useless boat, then sinks into animal degradation. Later, like a true colonist, he squares his shoulders, writes himself a charter and a penal code, and generally domesticates his tiny domain. Friday, when he appears, doesn't take kindly to his designated role of subject people; before long, Robinson becomes the black man's eager pupil in the art of...
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