Michel Tournier

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Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call them Jean-Paul. The mysterious bond between them excludes all others; they speak their own language; they are one perfectly harmonious unit; they are, in all innocence, lovers. For Paul, this unity is paradise, but as they grow up Jean rebels against it. He takes a mistress and deserts his brother, but Paul sets out to follow him in a pilgrimage that leads all around the world, through places that reflect their separation-the mirrored halls of Venice, the Zen gardens of Japan, the newly divided city of Berlin. The exquisite love story of Jean-Paul is set against the ugliness and pain of human existence. Gemini is a novel of extraordinary proportions, intricate images, and profound thought, in which Michel Tournier tells his fascinating story with an irresistible humor.

A provocative retelling of Robinson Crusoe, this classic of twentieth-century French literature depicts the explorer's struggle to tame nature and the transformative power of his relationship with the indigenous character, Friday. One of the most commonly assigned books in French high schools, Friday mines the philosophical underpinnings of Defoe's original story, exploring concepts of imperialism, world-building, and existentialism. "What was Friday to Daniel Defoe? Nothing: an animal, at best a creature waiting to receive his humanity from Robinson Crusoe, who as a European was in sole possession of all knowledge and wisdom." A stunning postcolonial retelling of Defoe's myth, Michel Tournier's Friday subverts expectations at every turn. Cast away on a tropical island, 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 all odds, he almost succeeds. Then Friday appears, and Crusoe is immediately infuriated by his mannerisms, by his "irrepressible, lyrical, and blasphemous" laugh, and most of all, by his natural intimacy with the island. Crusoe is certain that he has nothing to learn from Friday about how to live in nature. But after an accident destroys all of Crusoe's hard work, it is up to Friday to teach him just how ignorant he is. Winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Acad mie Fran aise, Friday transforms one of the canonical texts of western literature into a tale of initiation, and affirms both the abundance of the natural world and the abiding presence of the marvellous and mysterious.

Bessmertnaja istorija Robinzona, pereosmyslennaja klassikom Mishelem Turne, vot uzhe pochti pjatdesjat let javljaetsja simvolom frantsuzskoj literatury dlja junykh chitatelej. Robinzon pytaetsja prevratit svojo vynuzhdennoe pristanische v miniatjurnoe podobie toj tsivilizatsii, kotoruju on znal. No zhizn polna sjurprizov. Ostrovnaja tsivilizatsija pogibnet, i tot, kto eschjo vchera byl slugoj Robinzona, stanet ego uchitelem i drugom... Istorija Robinzona Kruzo, propuschennaja cherez prizmu XX veka. Dlja srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.Perevodchik: Buntman EvgenijKhudozhnik: Mjakonkina Vlada

An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Erl-King is a magisterial tale of innocence, perversion and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to adult misfit - a man without a sense of belonging until he finds himself a prisoner of war, and then a teacher, and then the 'ogre' of a Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn. Taking us more deeply into the dark heart of fascism than any novel since The Tin Drum, Tournier's masterpiece rivets us until the very last page, when Abel meets his mystic fate in the collapsing ruins of the Third Reich; it is a novel that shocks us, dazzles us, and above all holds us spellbound.

Jean och Paul är tvillingbröder, så lika och så sammansvetsade att man brukar kalla dem för Jean-Paul. Deras barndomsår förflyter i aningslös lycka i en liten bretagnisk by på 30-talet. Här kan de ännu gå fullständigt upp i varandra, förskansa sig i tvillingcellens slutna värld med dess regler, riter och hemliga språk. Men med puberteten och den annalkande mognaden kommer också splittringen. Det är Jean som vill spränga de bojor tvillingskapet lägger på hans liv medan Paul är dess omutlige väktare. I ett försök att slå sig fri förlovar sig Jean med en ung kvinna, men Paul tränger sig emellan och förstör förhållandet. I vredesmod flyr Jean, men Paul följer efter honom på en lång jakt som för till en rad betydelsemättade platser.Michel Tournier föddes i Paris 1924. Han debuterade först vid 43-års ålder, med romanen Vendredi, ou les limbes du Pacifique (1967) för vilken han fick det prestigefyllda Grand Prix de Roman. Karaktäristiskt för hans romaner är användandet av myter och sagor för att gestalta filosofiska problem.Pressröster »Tourniers sociofilosofiska resonemang är förundransvärda, och det är en ren njutning att läsa hans skruvade bibliska och mytologiska återberättelser.«Camilla Nilsson, Norrköpings Tidningar

" En v?rit?, l'Allemagne continue ? me valoir - comme du temps de mon enfance, de ma jeunesse, de mon ?ge m?r - des tristesses et des joies, des blessures et des fleurs, des pertes irr?parables et des richesses immenses." Michel Tournier raconte son lien intime avec l'Allemagne, sa famille germaniste, son rapport ? la langue de Goethe, ses ?tudes universitaires dans le champ de ruines d'apr?s-guerre. Par une r?flexion inspir?e d'un regard tendre, Michel Tournier fait battre le cSur de l'Europe et des peuples qui la composent. Il constate que les vertus dont chacun se r?clame sont toujours celles qui lui font le plus d?faut. Le bonheur en Allemagne ? est une promenade agr?able dont la langue assur?e et la justesse des vues soulignent ce qui fait la richesse, la force, mais aussi la faiblesse et le paradoxe de cette mosa?que s?culaire qu'est l'Europe.

If not by nature, then by habit, people tend to match one thing with another—man and woman, laughter and tears, sickness and health, fire and water, master and servant—thereby accentuating similarities and contrasts and opening a field of relations. In The Mirror of Ideas, Michel Tournier examines these pairs and a host of others to demonstrate how pairing one object or idea with another generates the work of imagination, philosophy, and creative thinking of all kinds. Tournier treats pairs both lowly and exalted—moving from fork and spoon, horse and bull, cat and dog, to fear and anguish, poetry and prose, body and soul, being and nothingness. Hardly an exhaustive inventory of traditional pairs, his selection nonetheless opens the door to patterns deeply embedded in culture and civilization, speech and writing, memory and habit. Possessed of both brilliant surfaces and surprising depths, Tournier's myriad reflections on the mirror of language reveal why his works have generated international attention and acclaim.

Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem--and audaciously imagines a fourth, "the eternal latecomer"' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus.

Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Academie Francaise, 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.

An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to "ogre" of the Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn, taking us deeper into the dark heart of fascism than any novel since The Tin Drum. Until the very last page, when Abel meets his mystic fate in the collapsing ruins of the Third Reich, it shocks us, dazzles us, and above all holds us spellbound.