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Download or read book Gemini written by Michel Tournier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call them Jean-Paul. When Jean rebels against their unity and deserts his brother, Paul sets out to follow him in a pilgrimage that leads all around the world, through places that reflect their separation.
Book Synopsis The Postmodern Mythology of Michel Tournier by : Melissa Barchi Panek
Download or read book The Postmodern Mythology of Michel Tournier written by Melissa Barchi Panek and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Tournier defines the supreme mission of a writer to be the creation of a mythology which allows for interaction with his readers, who seem to be losing their critical faculties in our contemporary, postmodern world dominated by consumption and dizzying technological advances. Our contemporary society has changed due to the end of the modern era with its reigning ideologies. Collapsing after the atrocities of the Second World War, Modernity and the artistic and literary reactions referred to as modernism, have likewise been transformed. Myth continues to represent the collectivity of human existence, yet, in the short stories and novels of Michel Tournier, myth represents the collapse of the all-encompassing ideologies inherent to the Modern era. The grand narratives of Modernity such as Christianity and Manâ (TM)s reason have been deconstructed in the postmodern era. The mythology of Michel Tournier expresses these trends towards the dissolution of Modernity and creates individual, mini narratives which emphasize the particularity of individual existence. Tournier takes established mythical models rooted in Christianity, fables and legends of Western Civilization and re-contextualizes them. Through a semiotic reworking of core binary pairs of a myth, Tournier creates a third-order level of representation which modifies the mythical model. The works of le Roi des Aulnes, Gilles et Jeanne, and Vendredi are illustrious of this third-order level of signification. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes and Claude LÃ(c)vi-Strauss, the structural make-up of myth transforms established meanings according to the dominant cultural code. Barthesâ (TM) semiological study of myth reveals the levels of representation through which myth creates meaning. Myth builds upon the denotative first-order level of language and through a connotative process, creates a second-order level. This connotative process does not end on this second-order, for in the writings of Tournier, this semiological process is continued to a third-order which re-contextualizes the myth again. Tournier adapts myth to the unique traits of the postmodern era including deconstruction and playfulness by allowing the reader to provide the context of the story. As such we, the reader, take the place as author of our own individual mythology.
Download or read book Friday written by Michel Tournier and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly praised novel—now in a new paperback edition Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds. Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.
Book Synopsis Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions by : Susan Petit
Download or read book Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions written by Susan Petit and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.
Book Synopsis The Golden Droplet by : Michel Tournier
Download or read book The Golden Droplet written by Michel Tournier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Four Wise Men by : Michel Tournier
Download or read book The Four Wise Men written by Michel Tournier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-09-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This may be more than a novel of high achievement, in fact; it may be the best work so far of a truly daring writer."—America Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem—and audaciously imagines a fourth, "the eternal latecomer"' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus.
Book Synopsis Myths of Modern Individualism by : Ian Watt
Download or read book Myths of Modern Individualism written by Ian Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year period during the Counter Reformation - presented unflattering portrayals of the three figures, while the Romantic period two centuries later recreated them as admirable and even heroic. The twentieth century retained their prestige as mythical figures, but with a new note of criticism. Robinson Crusoe came much later than the other three, but his fate can be seen as representative of the new religious, economic and social attitudes which succeeded the Counter-Reformation. The four figures help to reveal problems of individualism in the modern period: solitude, narcissism, and the claims of the self versus the claims of society. They all pursue their own view of what they should be, raising strong questions about their heroes' character and the societies whose ideals they reflect.
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Ideas by : Michel Tournier
Download or read book The Mirror of Ideas written by Michel Tournier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tournier treats pairs both lowly and exalted - moving from fork and spoon, horse and bull, cat and dog, to fear and anguish, poetry and prose, body and soul, being and nothingness. Hardly an exhaustive inventory of traditional pairs, his selection nonetheless opens the door to patterns deeply embedded in culture and civilization, speech and writing, memory and habit.
Book Synopsis Gilles & Jeanne by : Michel Tournier
Download or read book Gilles & Jeanne written by Michel Tournier and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the relationship between Gilles de Rais, later know as Bluebeard, and Joan of Arc, and suggests the effect of her condemnation and martyrdom on him
Book Synopsis The Midnight Love Feast by : Michel Tournier
Download or read book The Midnight Love Feast written by Michel Tournier and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary Arabian Nights, the storytellers being the party guests of a couple on the verge of divorce.
Download or read book The Erl-King written by Michel Tournier and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to adult misfit - a man without a sense of belonging until he finds himself a prisoner of war, and then a teacher, and then the 'ogre' of a Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn.
Download or read book Michel Tournier written by Mairi Maclean and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Friday and Robinson by : Michel Tournier
Download or read book Friday and Robinson written by Michel Tournier and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the evening of September 29, 1759, a cargo ship runs aground and is wrecked in a storm. There is only one survivor, a young Englishman travelling to South America to seek his fortune. This is the ultimate desert island story - a tale of one man's struggle to survive on an untamed island.
Download or read book Michel Tournier written by Michael Worton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.
Download or read book Constructions written by Michael Frayn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974 and republished following the success of Frayn's masterly work of philosophy, The Human Touch, Constructions is a dazzling, thought-provoking and fascinating book which explores some of the great problems in philosophy and of everyday life.
Download or read book Waterline written by Michel Tournier and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minkkinen has been photographing himself in the nude since 1971, an exploration that unfolds here as a timeless study of the human figure amid the forces of nature. The element of water provides the common ground for his surrealistic vision.
Book Synopsis The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's by : Jane Marjorie Rabb
Download or read book The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's written by Jane Marjorie Rabb and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this collection involve mysteries, perhaps because photography has a capacity for both documentary reality and moral and psychological ambiguity. Many nineteenth-century writers represented here, including Thomas Hardy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped make short fiction as respectable as the novel. Some of them were even serious photographers themselves. The twentieth century is arguably a golden age for both the short story and photography. This collection includes examples from a worldly group of writer--Eugène Ionesco, Julio Cortá¡zar, Michel Tournier, and Italo Calvino, as well as the Chinese writer Bing Xin and John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, and Raymond Carver. In this wide range of stories, varying from sentimental to obsessive, to sinister, to tragic and even fatal, the reader will find provocative examples of the confluence of the short story and photography, both once considered the bastard stepchildren of literature and art.
