Friday (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Michel Tournier
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Mythological re-creation
- Time of Work: 1759-1787
- Setting: “Speranza,” an island located off the coast of Chile
- Principal Characters: Robinson, Friday
- Genres: Long fiction, Mythological literature
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Native Americans or American Indians, Eighteenth century, Islands, Servants, Adventure, South America or South Americans, Puritans or Puritanism
- Locales: Islands, Chile
The Novel
Michel Tournier’s Friday adapts Daniel Defoe’s original masterpiece Robinson Crusoe (1719) and re-creates the whole myth of Robinson Crusoe as it also appears in Johann Wyss’s Der schweizerische Robinson (1812-1827; The Swiss Family Robinson, 1814, 1818, 1820) and Jules Verne’s L’Ile mysterieuse (1874-1875; Mysterious Island, 1875). Tournier retains the adventure story of his predecessors but alters their system of values and makes significant additions of an ethnological and psychological nature. Where his...
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