Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (Folio Series Number 959)
About this book
Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Academie Francaise, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds.
Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.
Subjects
- action & adventure
- adventure stories
- children's fiction
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- fiction
- fiction, general
- french fiction
- juv001000
- juvenile fiction
- naufrages
- robinson crusoe (fictitious character)
- roman d'aventures
- roman pour la jeunesse
- romans
- romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- shipwrecks
- shipwreck survival
- survie après accidents d'avion, naufrages
- survie en milieu sauvage
- survival
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks