by Michel Tournier · Flammarion jeunesse · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782081254114
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Vendredi ou la vie sauvage» is the adventure novel by Michel Tournier, published by Flammarion jeunesse in paperback (197 pages, in French).
Robinson Crusoe, sole survivor of a shipwreck, turns an island into an ordered territory and makes the native Friday his servant. Routine and misunderstanding mark their coexistence until an accident shakes the civilizing project. It will be Friday who teaches Robinson a new way of life in harmony with nature.
Work originally published in 1971; this 2011 edition reproduces the illustrations of the first edition.
For young readers aged 9 to 12 and for those who want to read a classic adventure in French.
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.
