Michel Tournier Le Coq De Bruy Re

This book is a study of Michel Tournier's collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyere, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a microcosm of the whole fictional universe of Tournier, widely regarded as France's premier living writer.

Comment le Père Noël donnerait-il le sein à l'Enfant Jésus? L'ogre du petit Poucet était-il un hippie? Un nain peut-il devenir un surhomme? A ces questions, et à bien d'autres plus graves et plus folles encore, ce livre répond par des histoires drôles, navrantes, exaltantes et toujours exemplaires.

Comment le Père Noël donnerait-il le sein à l'Enfant Jésus ? L'Ogre du Petit Poucet était-il un hippie ? Un nain peut-il devenir un surhomme ? Est-il possible de tuer avec un appareil de photographie ? Le citron donne-t-il un avant-goût du néant ? A ces questions, et à bien d'autres plus graves et plus folles encore, ce livre répond par des histoires drôles, navrantes, exaltantes et toujours exemplaires.

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 Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche 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.

With individual chapters written by specialists, Short French Fiction offers the reader new insights into some of the best examples of this genre and an impression of where this type of writing is heading as the new millennium approaches.

This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.

Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Despite asserting that he was not a literary critic, Deleuze provides exhilarating and original interactions with texts. This study offers in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and the writers who fascinated him, demonstrating the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference.

Audio Book deals with the ways in which various technologies enabling the transmission or storing of sound and voice are figured in selected works drawn from contemporary narrative fiction. The sound technologies are shown to influence the narrative structure, metaphorics, and style of the works studied.