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Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions (Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages) by Susan Petit is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 Météores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyère and Le Médianoche 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.
Who reads Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions (Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Susan Petit
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781556193033
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Science, Literary Fiction
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