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A writer is a cottage industry. Some craftsmen make tortoiseshell combs, others make leather wallets. I make Michel Tournier manuscripts.

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A myth is first of all a multistoreyed structure, each story being built according to an identical plan but at a different level of abstraction... The child's tale that is the myth's ground floor, as it were, is just as essential as its metaphysical summit.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier

Born: December 19, 1924
Died: January 18, 2016 (aged 91)
Bio: Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970.
Known for:
  1. Friday, or, The Other Island (1967)
  2. Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage (1971)
  3. The Erl-King (1970)
  4. Les météores (1975)
  5. Le coq de bruyère (1978)

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