Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions PDF
by Petit Susan Petit
Part of the Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages series
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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.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:241 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:01/01/1991
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- ISBN:9789027277749
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:241 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:01/01/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027277749
