Friday by Michel Tournier (Book Analysis)
Friday by Michel Tournier (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Friday by Michel Tournier. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, as well as an examination of how it was adapted from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and a brief discussion of Friday and Robinson, another version of the book targeted at younger readers. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 60-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Michel Tournier
- Presentation of Friday
- Summary of Friday
- Character study
- Robinson Crusoe
- Friday
- Analysis of Friday
- The logbook
- Rewriting a classic
- Robinson’s transformation
- The personification of the island
- Friday and Robinson
About Friday
Friday is Michel Tournier’s debut novel, and is a retelling of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 adventure novel Robinson Crusoe. Although Friday initially follows the plot of Defoe’s novel quite faithfully, it also incorporates modern philosophical thought and ultimately subverts many of the key themes and moral messages of the original novel. It was first published in 1967, and won the Académie française’s prestigious Grand prix du roman that year.
About Michel Tournier
Michel Tournier was a French writer, translator and journalist who worked for a number of major French newspapers. Later in life, he turned his hand to literature with the publication of his debut novel, Friday, in 1967. This marked the start of an extremely successful literary career, during which he won the 1970 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Erl-King and was elected to the Académie française in 1972. He died in 2016.
Product details
ISBN | 9782808011440 |
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Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
Format | |
Pages | 60 |
File size | 2.2 MB |