by Michel Tournier · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070379088
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«La Goutte d'or» is the novel by Michel Tournier, published by Folio in paperback (224 pages, in French).
The young Saharan shepherd Idriss is photographed by a tourist who promises to send him the picture from Paris. The image never arrives, and when he travels north in search of work, the city confronts him with too many images he does not recognize. In calligraphy he finds a way to escape that visual tyranny.
Originally published in 1986, it is number 1908 in the Folio collection.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary French narrative.
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.
