by Michel Tournier · Flammarion - Père Castor · tapa dura · ISBN 9782081618053
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«Vendredi ou la vie sauvage» is the young adult adventure novel by Michel Tournier, published by Flammarion-Père Castor in hardback.
After the wreck of his ship, Robinson is the only survivor and ends up on an apparently deserted island. To keep from giving up, he uses the island's resources and builds a routine, but his life changes when he meets Vendredi: the relationship between them shows him another way of understanding freedom and nature.
The original work was published in 1971; this 1992 edition belongs to the Castor Poche Junior collection.
Recommended for young readers aged 10-11, interested in castaway adventures and stories of friendship.
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.
