by Michel Tournier · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070366569
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«Le Roi des Aulnes» is the novel by Michel Tournier, published by Folio in paperback (608 pages, in French).
Abel Tiffauges, a French mechanic of singular nature, identifies with the ogre. Taken prisoner in the Second World War and brought to East Prussia, his fate crosses with a Nazi fortress where young men are trained. The novel interweaves mythology and symbolism to explore innocence, power and perversion.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1970. Edition number 656 of the Folio collection, with an afterword by Philippe de Monès.
For readers of French fiction and historical fiction about the Second World War, interested in classic works with strong symbolic weight.
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.
