by Michel Tournier · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070335534
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«Les contes du médianoche» is the short story collection by Michel Tournier, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (128 pages, in French).
A volume of fourteen stories, mostly taken from «Le Médianoche amoureux». The title term designates a midnight banquet: a friendly nocturnal party where guests tell stories while eating and drinking. There are tales to make you laugh and to move you, with imagination and reflection as the thread of a magical evening.
First edition published in 1989. Part of the Folio Junior collection and includes illustrations by Bruno Mallart.
The book is aimed at young readers, although its stories can also be enjoyed by an adult readership.
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.
