by Michel Tournier · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070372294
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«Le Coq de bruyère» is a collection of short stories by Michel Tournier, published by Folio in paperback (352 pages, in French).
Questions such as whether Father Christmas would breastfeed the Christ Child, whether Tom Thumb's ogre was a hippie, or whether a dwarf can be a superman open these stories, where the humorous and the unsettling coexist. Tournier addresses identity, desire, and the boundary between nature and culture with irony and a boundless imagination.
It corresponds to number 1229 in the Folio collection. The work was originally published in 1978; this paperback edition is from 1980.
For readers of contemporary French fiction who enjoy tales with a philosophical and ironic tone.
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.
