This is a retelling of Robinson Crusoe by the French writer Michel Tournier, who I read earlier in the year for his anti-Nazi novel, The Ogre. This novel also won various French literary prizes. This retelling does a few things that I found really interesting and satisfying. It is NOT a retelling of the novel from Friday’s point of view. Those kinds of novels are out there by now, and Michel Tournier just isn’t that kind of post-colonial writer. Instead, this novel switches from the narrow first […]