Friday, or, The Other Island
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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.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 236 pages
- ISBN: 9780801855924 / 801855926
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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Recommand par Bertrand, prof de philo, amis de Marine et Benoit I was unfairly suspicious of this book the way I'm unfairly suspicious of musicians who mostly sing other people's songs - chalk it up to my adolescent and more than just slightly Puritanical obsession with originality. But of course that's all bullshit. Friday gains a lot from being a story whose plot we already know; to put this graphically,... Na het lezen van dit boek komt Defoe's Robinson Cruso mij voor als een incompleet en kortzichtig werk. Dat heeft verder niks met de kwaliteit van Defoe's werk te maken, maar met Tournier die een Robinson schept die heel effectief het Verlichtingsdenken dat al zo lang de overhand heeft (gehad) problematiseert. Robinson Cruso van tevoren...
