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The Wind Spirit: An Autobiography
by
Michel Tournier
,
Arthur Goldhammer
(Goodreads Author)
Michel Tournier, one of France's most acclaimed contemporary men of letters, received teh Prix Goncourt for his novel The Ogre and the Grand Prix du Roman from the Academie Francaise for his novel Friday. As a fabulist, his stature equals that of Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, and John Barth. As an iconoclast in contemporary cultural cr
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Hardcover
,
259 pages
Published
January 1st 1988
by Beacon Press (MA)
(first published February 18th 1977)
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The British literary critic/famous husband John Bayley, in his fantastic study of desire, "The Characters of Love," talks about the genius of the French language being "confident": when Proust says something about human nature, the language he uses leaves us little doubt that he has grasped all the subtleties of his argument, even if they're ambiguous ones (compare this to Melville in Moby Dick, where English seems to be a surface whose value lies not just in its probity but in its ability to co
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Je me prends souvent à éprouver une antipathie certaine pour les auteurs qui s'essaient à l'autobiographie et Tournier ne fait pas exception.
Sa minoration de la souffrance éprouvée par deux jeunes filles violées par des soldats allemands pendant la guerre (tellement moins forte que celle qu'il avait éprouvée lors de l'ablation de ses amygdales/végétations/dunnodon't care) m'a révoltée. C'est ce que je retiens du livre et peut-être ne lirai je plus un Tournier comme avant (même si j'ai adoré Ven ...more
Sa minoration de la souffrance éprouvée par deux jeunes filles violées par des soldats allemands pendant la guerre (tellement moins forte que celle qu'il avait éprouvée lors de l'ablation de ses amygdales/végétations/dunnodon't care) m'a révoltée. C'est ce que je retiens du livre et peut-être ne lirai je plus un Tournier comme avant (même si j'ai adoré Ven ...more
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Michel Tournier is a French writer.
His works are highly considered and have won important awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique. and the Prix Goncourt for Le Roi des aulnes in 1970. His works dwell on the fantastic, his inspirations including traditional German culture, Catholicism, and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. H ...more
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His works are highly considered and have won important awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique. and the Prix Goncourt for Le Roi des aulnes in 1970. His works dwell on the fantastic, his inspirations including traditional German culture, Catholicism, and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. H ...more
