Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction(English, Hardcover, Platten David)

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Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction(English, Hardcover, Platten David) is written by Platten David and published by Liverpool University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 085323843X (ISBN 10) and 9780853238430 (ISBN 13).

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 Tournier's 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 Tournier's fiction that encompasses the writer's stated ambition to 'go beyond literature'.