Tournier Elementaire

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Product ID:	9781557530561
Product Form:	Hardback
Country of Manufacture:	US
Series:	Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Title:	Tournier Elementaire
Authors:	Author: Jonathan Krell
Page Count:	240
Subjects:	Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, French
Description:	Michel Tournier, member of the Acadimie Goncourt and one of the most influential French writers of the post-Nouveau roman period, stresses the crucial interrelationship that exists between myth and literature. It is the writer's duty, he states, to keep myths alive by continually renewing and transforming them, re-releasing them in an ever changing social context. Written in French, this study considers the Tournier novel as the story of a voyage in a literal and figurative sense. Jonathan Krell uses the term "elementary" to characterize this voyage through the universe of Tournier's imagination, which is dominated by the four primordial element&--earth, water, air, and fire. Building on a foundation of Western culture's rudimentary myths, such as the ogre, twinship, and the Biblical stories of creation and the magi, Tournier performs a radical and disturbing transformation. Professor Krell shows how the transformation is made.
Imprint Name:	Purdue University Press
Publisher Name:	Purdue University Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	1994-11-30

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