Tournier, Michel (Vol. 95) - Michel Tournier with Maura A. Daly (interview date 1985)
Michel Tournier with Maura A. Daly (interview date 1985)
SOURCE: "An Interview with Michel Tournier," in Partisan Review, Vol. LII, No. 4, 1985, pp. 407-13.
[In the following interview, Daly questions Tournier about his novel Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, as well as about the function of myth in his work.]
The following interview with Tournier took place on a sunny summer day in Paris, in the offices of his publisher, Gallimard, after he had just published his seventh major fictional work, Gaspard, Melchior and Balthazar (The Four Wise Men).
[Daly]: Why did you choose the three Magi as the subject for Gaspard, Melchior and Balthazar?
[Tournier]: I always wanted to do something with my Christian background which is very important to me because I was brought up in Christian schools. Consequently, it was one of the things I wanted to talk about. I think that the choice of the three wise men was a...
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