Friday

Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the AcadA(c)mie FranAaise, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds. Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.

About the author

Born in 1924, Michel Tournier studied philosophy and then became a journalist and a writer. He is the author of several novels, including The Ogre, Friday, and Gemini.

Summary

Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Tournier, Tournier Michel
• Assisted by: Norman Denny (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.1997
• EAN: 9780801855924
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-5592-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general