La vie privée de Michel Tournier à travers ses romans
The private life of Michel Tournier as reflected in his novels

Summary/Abstract: Michel Tournier is a well-known novelist and he is famous for his originality and his depth in his romantic creation. From his first novel, Friday or the Limbs of the Pacific up to his last one Eléazar or the Source and the Bush, he presents a very interesting adventure both in France and all over the world. He was a person (maybe the only one) who knew how to transform an unexpected failure in the aggregation of philosophy into a literary success. The romantic work of Tournier amounts in three dimensions which have direct relation with his own life. The first one is that Tournier appeals to procedures which combine the coincidence, the freedom and the meaning. The second is completely bound to its intelligence which allows him to collect all documents: history, science and geography. The third is the mythology which allows him to pass philosophy in the novel. The reading of the novels of Tournier reveals the precise lines of his life movements.

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