SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Michel Tournier

»Michel Tournier (French: [miʃɛl tuʁnje]; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit (Beacon Press, 1988). He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Le Roi des aulnes

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Erl-King (French: Le Roi des aulnes) is a 1970 novel by the French writer Michel Tournier. It was published in 1972 in an English translation by Barbara Bray as both The Erl-King and The Ogre. The novel received the Prix Goncourt. The 1996 film The Ogre, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, is based on the novel.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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B i b l i o g r a p h y

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[Info] Corjanus, Marjolein. »Solipsizing Martine in Le Roi des Aulnes by Michel Tournier: Thematic, stylistic and intertextual similarities with Nabokov's Lolita.« Miranda No. 15 (2017).

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