by Michel Tournier · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070334452
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«Vendredi ou la vie sauvage» is the adventure novel by Michel Tournier, published in paperback by Gallimard (191 pages, in French).
In September 1759, Robinson is shipwrecked en route to Chile and left alone on a desert island. His survival depends on his hands and his ingenuity, until the arrival of Friday transforms his existence and his idea of civilization. Tournier recreates the myth of Robinson Crusoe in a more philosophical and accessible version.
Youth adaptation of the novel «Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique» by Michel Tournier, with illustrations by Georges Lemoine. 1987 edition in the Folio Junior collection.
Aimed at readers aged 9 to 12, it is also a common reading in French 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.
