Friday, or, The Other Island
Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, 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...
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Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801855924 (0801855926)
ASIN: 801855926
Publish date: March 18th 1997
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 236
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Reference,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Philosophy,
Roman,
France,
French Literature,
Research,
Retellings
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