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.

Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, 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 to tame it, to remake …

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 …