Un exemple de ré-écriture post-moderne du mythe du «bon sauvage» des Lumières dans Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique de Michel Tournier
An example of post-modern Re-Writing of the Myth of the "Good Savage" of the Enlightenment in Friday or the Limbo of the Pacific by Michel Tournier

Summary/Abstract: M. Tournier is concerned with “a bricolage” of myths whose initial meaning he re-interprets in an idiosyncratic manner in his work. Here, he uses the myth of the “bon sauvage” and its ethnological foundation together with the literary figure of Robinson Crusoe so as to suit his own philosophical projects. Tournier’s singularity resides in his reversing the consacrated roles of the two protagonists, Robinson and Vendredi, whereby he reflects upon the condition of man in western society. This is an example of re-writing which uses post-modernist techniques both at content and rhetorical level which the article intends to focus upon.

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