Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions (Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages) - Hardcover

Petit, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556193025 ISBN 13: 9781556193026

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991

Synopsis

This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Météores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyère and Le Médianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1556193025
• ISBN 13: 9781556193026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 241