by Michel Tournier · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422625049
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«Viernes o los limbos del Pacífico» is the novel by Michel Tournier, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (250 pages, in Spanish).
Michel Tournier reinterprets Robinson Crusoe: after years of solitude on an island, the castaway finds in Friday a companion and an equal, not a servant. The relationship between Robinson Crusoe and Friday opens a reflection on solitude, civilization and the relationship with nature, within an adventure story.
1988 edition published in Barcelona, in the Onda Joven collection, literary series, translated by Lourdes Ortiz.
Aimed at young readers and students; used as school reading and classified as youth and adventure literature.
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.
