Michel Tournier died today.
One of the best french authors ever.
Can we have a memorial thread?
http://www.afp.com/en/news/french-author-michel-tournier-dies-91
Literally who?
>>7601841
>Michel Tournier
Au cinéma
1996 : Le Roi des aulnes, film germano-franco-britannique réalisé par Volker Schlöndorff, d'après le roman éponyme publié en 1970.
À la télévision
1990 : La Goutte d'or, téléfilm français de Marcel Bluwal, d'après le roman éponyme publié en 1985.
ça vaut le coup ?
Recommend me something mate.
>>7601905
Le Roi des Aulnes by Schlendorff is a good adaptation but lacks in 99% ideas and philosophies of the novel. Almost every little paragraph is an original thought.
>>7601942
I was also introduced to Tournier via Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It's been a long time since I read, but I remember Friday being an interesting retelling of Robinson Crusoe (within a broader context of an inquiry into alterity, tellurian forces, and l'événement).
>>7601841
>tfw reading Les Météores for the first time
>>7602114
Yeah, in Logic and sense it's mentioned too (haven't read it yet); for myself it was in one older essay by Deleuze: L’Ile déserte (Desert islands in English I think), he talks there about Friday and about Suzanne et le Pacifique by Giraudoux; great essay, great books.
>>7601841
>mfw no sticky
/lit/ is truly the plebbest board.
Seriously, I recommend him to all of you.
>>7602162
My dad recommended Tournier to me when I was 15 or 16 or something. When I got to Les Météores I got really gay feels, and then was confused why he would give such a book to me.
Anyway we still discuss his books and we were literally the only people to share a news story about his death in Facebook. Such is life in this cultural peripheria.
>>7602333
Today's news in France: Nicolas Sarkozy writing a book... > ^^
Nice trips tho.
>>7601841
Loved Vendredi ou la vie sauvage as a kid. Later, I read Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique and Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar
all very good and recommended
his legacy will never die
>>7602333
>being on Facebook
You got it wrong.
>>7603159
at least he remembered to celebrate his death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tournier
for fags who don't know him yet
>>7603341
>likes tournier
faggot detected
>>7604959
>babby's first bump
nobody even cares about this guy
>>7601841
Tournier? I vaguely remember having read a short story by him in an anthology about ten years ago. I vaguely remember it was called The Red Dwarf or something close and it was vaguely and sexually shocking. The details are a bit -- let me find the right word -- vague.
I'm not even sure if I got the right guy here. Anyway, he looks like the grandpa I wish I had.
