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Title: Friday by Michel Tournier, Norman Denny ISBN: 0-8018-5592-6 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Rousseau again in a good savage version of Crusoe
Comment: This is the Robinson Crusoe story rewritten in the style of Jean Jacques Rousseau. The savage life is the hero, civilization the villain. The author does not seem to notice that he has Crusoe saving Friday from death at the hands of his own people (a change from Defoe's Crusoe), therefore proving that not everything was so paradisiacal in Friday's "free" life style.
When Crusoe tries to use agriculture to provide for his food, he is accused of "avarice" by the author. How much better to do it Friday's way, just lying on a hammock under a tree and getting fruit by throwing stones to the branches! No work to get food, just living with nature. As though this method of providing for our needs could be used by all but a few privileged! If this were done by everyone, millions would starve. It is the typical ecologist mistake, wanting to get back to a mythical past that never happened except in their imaginations.
Defoe's original Robinson Crusoe was much better than this unnecessary remake.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inside Crusoe
Comment: Rewriting Robinson Crusoe? Tournier tells an entirely different story, although the outward details are mostly the same as in Defoe's novel. The interest has shifted to what's going on inside Crusoe. And instead of the self-confident Christian who steadily builds up a colony, Tournier shows us a man of radical twists and turns. At first he even seems to have given up completely, letting himself sink into the mud. However, when he pulls himself together and starts colonizing the island, that turns out to be just a stage in his development, too.
This is a very witty and original novel, with many things to enjoy for those who are familiar with Defoe's book. At long last we find out that Crusoe did have some kind of sexuality after all...
Rating: 5
Summary: white man on an island
Comment: what will white man do on an island when he is alone?he would probably try to be the master of the island ,try to build a house ,try to create the western civilization again Tournier is brilliant when he aims to make you see what way the white man thinks
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Title: The Four Wise Men by Michel Tournier, Ralph Manheim ISBN: 0801857333 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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