RECIT – “Les Fausses fenêtres”, the very first novel by the author of “Vendredi”, is published by Gallimard. An unpublished work that heralds the future of the writer who died in 2016. It also includes his correspondence with a German friend spanning almost five decades. A fascinating read!
A 13-year-old boy, an isolated castle, a strange tutor, a couple of angels, monsters and an obsession with a transformed body, considerations on founding myths… And a taste for provocation. These are the ingredients of Michel Tournier, The False Windowspublication accompanied by the second volume of his correspondence with his friend and translator Hellmut Waller, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the author of Meteors.
In 1950, Tournier failed the agrégation in philosophy, after studying in Tübingen, in the south of Germany, his second homeland. This failure, as destructive as it was seminal, led him to turn to fiction and the novel. Prior to the publication in 1967 of Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique, he was known to have made a few trial gallops. Two works of fiction in the form of a Diary, set in the 1950s, featuring the characters of Michel Amercoeur and Cromorne, who…
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