by Michel Tournier · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070369591
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«Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique» is the novel by Michel Tournier, published by Gallimard in paperback (283 pages, in French).
A shipwreck leaves Robinson alone on a desert island, where his struggle for survival and order is transformed by the arrival of Friday. Tournier rewrites the myth of Robinson Crusoe as a spiritual and philosophical adventure, and offers a reflection on solitude, civilisation and the relationship between human beings and nature.
Originally published in 1967, it won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française. It is volume 959 in Gallimard's Folio collection.
For readers of French literature and students working on rewritings of the classics; it is commonly read in schools.
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.
