[ Le thème de l’enfant dans l’œuvre de Michel Tournier ]
Volume 41, Issue 1, November 2023, Pages 1–8
Liao Min1
1 Jinan University, China
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Michel Tournier is one of the great figures of the contemporary French novel. The subject of the child runs through almost Tournier’s all works. Tournier makes the child a marvelous, triumphant being. This ideal model of the child, which is inspired by Rousseau’s conception, designates childhood as a fullness of being and embodies an original innocence. This conception of the child is also well developed in eastern philosophy, which considers the child as a representation of strong vitality, spiritual simplicity, the desire for ignorance, the ideal paradigm of life. For the characters in Tournier’s works, the state of childhood is an ideal way of life and a fulfillment of being; they dream of returning to this state of childlike innocence in order to attain an ideal of happiness.
Author Keywords: Michel Tournier, Child, Innocence.
Volume 41, Issue 1, November 2023, Pages 1–8
Liao Min1
1 Jinan University, China
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Michel Tournier is one of the great figures of the contemporary French novel. The subject of the child runs through almost Tournier’s all works. Tournier makes the child a marvelous, triumphant being. This ideal model of the child, which is inspired by Rousseau’s conception, designates childhood as a fullness of being and embodies an original innocence. This conception of the child is also well developed in eastern philosophy, which considers the child as a representation of strong vitality, spiritual simplicity, the desire for ignorance, the ideal paradigm of life. For the characters in Tournier’s works, the state of childhood is an ideal way of life and a fulfillment of being; they dream of returning to this state of childlike innocence in order to attain an ideal of happiness.
Author Keywords: Michel Tournier, Child, Innocence.
Abstract: (french)
Michel Tournier est l’une des grandes figures du roman français contemporain. Le thème de l’enfant parcourt presque toute l’œuvre de Tournier. Tournier fait de l’enfant un être merveilleux, triomphant. Ce modèle idéal de l’enfant qui s’inspire de la conception rousseauiste, désigne l’enfance comme une plénitude de l’être et incarne une innocence originelle. Cette conception de l’enfant est aussi bien développée dans la philosophie orientale, qui considère l’enfant comme une représentation de la forte vitalité, de la simplicité spirituelle, du désir de l’ignorance, du paradigme idéal de vie. Pour les personnages dans les ouvrages de Tournier, l’état de l’enfance est un mode idéal de vie et un épanouissement de l’être; ils rêvent de retourner à cet état de l’innocence de l’enfant pour atteindre un idéal de bonheur.
Author Keywords: Michel Tournier, Enfant, Innocence.
How to Cite this Article
Liao Min, “The theme of the child in the work of Michel Tournier,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 1–8, November 2023.
