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Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (Folio Series Number 959) (1984)

Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (Folio Series Number 959) (1984)

Children Literary Fiction Action & Adventure

Michel Tournier

Year: 1984
Authors: Michel Tournier
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Academie Francaise, 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.