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Le roi des aulnes Michel Tournier publisher: , 1970 translated as: The Ogre publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1997 (new translation) translation: Barbara Bray refered to by: The Tin Drum Günter Grass
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summary: The Ogre follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to "ogre" of the Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn. |
| bookweb | from: Lezen&Cetera, Pieter Steinz |
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| BOOKS BY MICHEL TOURNIER: The Ogre 1970 The Ogre follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to "ogre" of the Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn. | READ ON... The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco, 1980 The Tin Drum Günter Grass, 1959 | |
| Friday 1967 A retelling of Robinson Crusoe. Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds. Then Friday appears and teaches him that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization. | ||
| Gemini 1975 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. | ||
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