Michel Tournier

Il re degli ontani è un romanzo del 1970 dello scrittore francese Michel Tournier; racconta la storia di un uomo che recluta ragazzini per diventare nazisti, nella convinzione di proteggerli. Pubblicato dall'editore Gallimard ottenne quello stesso anno il Premio Goncourt.

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 paradise, but as …

If not by nature, then by habit, people tend to match one thing with another—man and woman, laughter and tears, sickness and health, fire and water, master and servant—thereby accentuating similarities and contrasts and opening a field of relations. In The Mirror of Ideas, Michel Tournier examines these pairs and a …