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Michel Tournier & the Metaphor of Fiction
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Platten, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool University Press 2004 Limited
- Summary:
- Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tourniers fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tourniers fiction that encompasses the writers stated ambition to go beyond literature.
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