by Michel Tournier · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422653677
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«El urogallo» is a collection of short stories by Michel Tournier, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (333 pages, in Spanish).
A collection of tales that starts from unusual and provocative questions to rewrite myths and everyday scenes with irony. Childhood, sexuality, death and nature are treated from a surrealist and disconcerting register, with unanswered questions as the driving force of the narrative.
Work originally published as «Le coq de Bruyère» in 1978; this 1995 edition includes translation and prologue by Lourdes Ortiz.
For readers of contemporary fiction and short stories seeking an ironic and provocative narrative, with echoes of French literature.
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.
