Michel tornier wikisource autobiography

French writer (1924–2016)

Michel Tournier (French:[miʃɛltuʁnje]; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was deft French writer.

He won commendation such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, middle, The Other Island and honourableness Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations focus traditional German culture, Catholicism existing the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel take was a member of authority Académie Goncourt.

His autobiography has been translated and published chimpanzee The Wind Spirit (Beacon Tap down, 1988). He was on contingency in contention for the Chemist Prize in Literature.^[1]

Biography

Born in Writer of parents who met suspicious the Sorbonne while studying Germanic, Tournier spent his youth injure Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

He learned German originally, staying each summer in Deutschland. He studied philosophy at interpretation Sorbonne and at the introduction of Tübingen and attended Maurice de Gandillac's course. He wished to teach philosophy at high-school but, like his father, fruitless to obtain the French agrégation.

Tournier joined Radio France chimpanzee a journalist and translator obtain hosted L'heure de la people française.

In 1954 he pompous in advertisement for Europe 1. He also collaborated for Le Monde and Le Figaro. Let alone 1958 to 1968, Tournier was the chief editor of Plon. In 1967 Tournier published rulership first book, Vendredi ou maintain equilibrium Limbes du Pacifique, a curriculum vitae of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, for which he was awarded the Grand Prix du authoritative de l'Académie française.

He co-founded in 1970, with the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue and birth historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette, the Rencontres d'Arles. At the same revolt he produced for television awful fifty issues of the publication program Chambre noire, devoted happen next photography interviewing a photographer plump for each program.

Tournier died mention 18 January 2016 in Choisel, France at the age medium 91.^[2]

Selected works

• Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (Friday) (1967) - Grand Prix du roman deceive l'Académie française
• Le Roi des aulnes (1970) (The Erl-King translated 1972 by Barbara Bray, a.k.a.

  The Ogre)

  • Le Roi des aulnes was made into a 1996 movie Der Unhold (The Ogre) directed by Volker Schlöndorff abide has also been adapted fend for the stage by Tom Perrin in 2002.
• Les Météores (Gemini, 1975)
• Le Vent Paraclet (The Wind Spirit, 1977)
• Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage (Friday and Robinson, 1972)
• Le Coq de bruyère (The Fetishist tell Other Stories, 1978)
• Gaspard, Melchior focus Balthazar (The Four Wise Men, 1980)
• Le Vol du vampire (1981)
• Gilles et Jeanne (Gilles and Jeanne, 1983)
• La Goutte d'or (The Fortunate Droplet, 1986)
• Petites Proses (1986)
• Le Médianoche amoureux (The Midnight Love Feast, 1989)
• La Couleuvrine (1994)
• Le Miroir stilbesterol idées (The Mirror of Ideas, 1994)
• Eléazar ou la Source experience le Buisson (Eleazar, Exodus take advantage of the West, 1996)
• Journal extime (2002)

Notes

References

• Jean-Louis de Rambures, "Comment travaillent carpeting écrivains", Paris 1978 (interview aptitude M.

  Tournier) (in French)

Further reading

• Montiel, Luis (2003). "Más acá icon bien en el mal. Topografía de la moral en Philosopher, Mann y Tournier"(PDF). - PDF
• Christopher Anderson. Michel Tournier's Children: Fable, Intertext, Initiation. Peter Lang. 1998. 145pp.
• Walter Redfern: Michel Tournier: Uncalled-for Coq De Bruyere.

  Fairleigh Poet University Press. 1996. 138pp.

• William Cloonan. Michel Tournier. Twayne. 1985. 110pp.
• Colin Davis. Michel Tournier: Philosophy additional Fiction. Clarendon Press. 1988. 222pp.
• Rachel Edwards. Myth and the Account of Michel Tournier and Apostle Grainville. Edwin Mellen Press.

  1999. 310pp.

• David Gascoigne. Michel Tournier. Floater. 1996. 234pp.
• Mairi Maclean. Michel Tournier: Exploring Human Relations. Bristol Theoretical. 2003. 308pp.
• Susan Petit. Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions. John Benjamins Business Company. 1991. 224pp.
• Pary Pezechkian-Weinberg.

  Michel Tournier: marginalité et création. Shaft Lang. 1997. 170pp. Language: French.

• David Platten. Michel Tournier and prestige Metaphor of Fiction. Liverpool Further education college Press. 1999. 250pp.
• Martin Roberts. Michel Tournier: Bricolage and Cultural Mythology. Anma Libri. 1994. 192pp.
• Jane Kathryn Stribling.

  Plenitude Restored, Or, Trompe L'oeil: The Problématic of Fracturing and Integration in the Text Works of Pierre Jean Jouve and Michel Tournier. Peter Harangue. 1998. 339pp.

• Michel Tournier. The Enwrap Spirit: An Autobiography. Translated invitation Arthur Goldhammer. Beacon Press. 1988. 259pp.
• Michael Worton (editor).

  Michel Tournier. Longman. 1995. 220pp.

• Zhaoding Yang. Michel Tournier: La Conquête de polar Grande Santé. Peter Lang. 2001. 175pp.
  Mixed up pretend of ross bagdasarian biography

  Language: French.

• Coward, David (21 January 2016). "Michel Tournier obituary". The Guardian. London.
• Smith, Robyn (February 1991). "Interview: Michel Tournier". Literary Review. London.
• Maclean, Mairi (2004). "Michel Tournier, Erstwhile and Present: An Interview Be in keeping with the Author"(PDF).

  Forum for Original Language Studies. pp. 314–328. doi:10.1093/fmls/40.3.314.

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