"Friday," winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Academie Francaise, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the "New Yorker" calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out [...]
Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call them Jean-Paul. The mysterious bond between them excludes all others; they speak their own language; they are one perfectly harmonious unit; they are, in all innocence, lovers. For Paul, this unity is [...]
Jean och Paul är tvillingbröder, så lika och så sammansvetsade att man brukar kalla dem för Jean-Paul. Deras barndomsår förflyter i aningslös lycka i en liten bretagnisk by på 30-talet. Här kan de ännu gå fullständigt upp i varandra, förskansa sig i tvillingcellens slutna värld med[...]