by Michel Tournier · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811658405
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«Casa, città, corpi, bambini» is a collection of short prose pieces by Michel Tournier, published by Garzanti in 1989 in paperback (112 pages, in Italian).
The book brings together short prose pieces by Michel Tournier around four motifs: the house, the city, the body and childhood. With an intimate and reflective gaze, the author offers observations on urban life, the home, the human body and children.
The full title includes the subtitle «Piccole prose del maggiore scrittore francese d'oggi»; it belongs to the I Coriandoli collection from Garzanti.
Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit. He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
