Criticism

Apter, Emily. "Fore-skin and After-image: Photographic Fetishism in Tournier's Fiction." L'Esprit Createur XXIX, No. 1 (Spring 1989): 72-82.

Examines the role of fetishism in Tournier's works.

Birkirts, Sven. "Michel Tournier." In his An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th Century Literature, pp. 171-78. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985.

Praises Tournier's daring and innovation.

Cloonan, William. "Le Roi des aulnes: Myth as Fiction, Fiction as Myth." Romance Languages 3 (1991): 32-6.

Studies the role of myth in The Ogre, drawing on Roland Barthes' definition of myth.

Davis, Colin. "Art and the Refusal of Mourning: The Aesthetics of Michel Tournier." Paragraph 10 (October 1987): 29-44.

Discusses Tournier's use of artistic themes.

――――――. "Michel Tournier's Vendredi; ou, Les Limbes du Pacifique: A Novel of Beginnings." Neophilologues LXXIII, No. 3 (July 1989): 373-82.

Studies Tournier's themes and literary style.

Edwards, Rachel. "Myth, Allegory and Michel Tournier." Journal of European Studies XIX, No. 74, part 2 (June 1989): 99-121.

Provides an in-depth study of Tournier's many definitions and uses of myth and allegory.

Higonnet, Margaret R. "Marguerite Yourcenar and Michel Tournier: The Arts of the Heart." In Triumphs of the Spirit in Children's Literature, edited by Francelia Butler and Richard Rotert, pp. 151-58. Hamden: Library Professionals Publication, 1986.

Praises the thematic portrayals in Tournier's literature for children.

Hueston, Penny. "An Interview with Michel Tournier." Meanjin 38, No. 3 (September 1979): 400-05.

Interview in which Tournier discusses what he considers the most important French novels of the twentieth century.

Ladimer, Bethany. "Overcoming Original Difference: Sexuality in the Work of Michel Tournier." Modern Language Studies XXI, No. 2 (Spring 1991): 76-91.

Discusses the roles that sexuality and perversion play in Tournier's fiction.

Levy, Karen D. "Le Grand Meaulnes and Le Roi des aulnes: Counterpointed Echoes from a Distant Past." Romance Notes XXIX, No. 2 (Winter 1988): 107-18.

Discusses intertexuality in Tournier's novels. Compares Le Roi des aulnes with Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes (1913).

――――――. "The Fatal Temptation of the Image: Specular Fascination in Tournier's Le Roi des aulnes." The International Fiction Review 19, No. 2 (1992): 76-87.

Focuses on Tournier's use of signs and images in his fiction.

Maclean, Mairi. "Michel Tournier as Misogynist (or Not?): An Assessment of the Author's View of Femininity." The Modern Language Review 83, No. 2 (April 1988): 322-31.

Discusses Tournier's representation of women and the hostility his male characters have for them.

Petit, Susan. "Sexualite Alimentaire or Elementaire: Michel Tournier's Answer to Freud." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 24, Nos. 3-4 (Summer/Fall 1991): 163-77.

Focuses on the sexual themes in Friday and The Ogre.

Platten, David. "Terms of Reference: Michel Tournier's Le Roi des aulnes." Journal of European Studies 21, No. 84 (December 1991): 281-302.

Offers an in-depth study of The Ogre.

Quinones, Ricardo J. "Twinning the Twain." In his The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature, pp. 229-37. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Examines the Cain and Abel themes in Tournier's Le Roi des aulnes and Les Météores.

Robinson, Christopher. "Philosophical Dilemmas." In his French Literature in the Twentieth Century, pp. 170-77. London: David & Charles, 1980.

Discusses the role of myth in Tournier's first three published novels.

Rushdie, Salman. "Michel Tournier." In Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981–1991, pp. 249-253. London: Granta Books, 1991.

Praises Gemini, stating that Tournier "weaves banalities into wonders."

Sankey, Margaret. "Parody, History and Myth in Le Roi des aulnes. Australian Journal of French Studies XXVII, No. 1 (January-April 1990): 73-82.

Defends Tournier's use of myth and intertexuality in Le Roi des aulnes.

Schehr, Lawrence R. "Tournier's Theoretical Pretext Works Like a Charm." Studies in Twentieth-century Literature 12, No. 2 (Spring 1988): 221-38.

Reviews La Goutte d'or and discusses the use of the photograph theme throughout the text.

Shattuck, Roger. "Locating Michel Tournier." In his The Innocent Eye on Modern Literature and the Arts, pp. 205-18. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1984.

Examines Tournier's status among twentieth-century French novelists.

Shryock, Richard. "Reading Models: Embedded Narrative and Ideology in La goutte d'or." Modern Language Studies XXI, No. 3 (Summer 1991): 65-75.

Focuses on the narrative techniques in La goutte d'or, examining the ways in which they influence the development of the protagonist and affect the novel's ideological and pedagogical content.

Strauss, Walter A. "Tournier's Quest for Sophia." In Literature as Philosophy, Philosophy as Literature, edited by Donald G. Marshall, pp. 306-16. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987.

Lauds Tournier's depiction of the pursuit of wisdom in his novels.

Worton, Michael J. "Myth-Reference in Le Roi des aulnes." Stanford French Review VI, Nos. 2-3 (Fall-Winter 1982): 299-310.

Examines the function of myth in Tournier's Le Roi des aulnes.

――――――. "Use and Abuse of Metaphor in Tournier's Le Vol du Vampire." Paragraph 10 (October 1987): 13-28.

Examines the function of the vampire metaphor as it relates to the text-reader relationship in Tournier's fiction.

York, R. A. "Thematic Construction in Le Roi des aulnes." Orbis Litterarum 36, No. 1 (1981): 76-91.

Focuses on the thematic progression of obsession, possessiveness, service, sacrifice, and apocalyptic triumph in Le Roi des aulnes.