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En estas pequeñas prosas de Michel Tournier apreciamos la observación justa, el descubrimiento insólito, la intensidad de la vida en cada frase y el desengaño de la historia al término de cada reflexión. Los apasionados lectores de Medianoche de amor y El Rey de los Alisos encontrarán en estas páginas la reserva íntima, sabia, viajera de Michel Tournier, que realiza la más perfecta antología literaria con la materia preciosa de la experiencia y la sensibilidad de un certero creador. Novelista de brillante estilo, poético y tenso, sus obras llevan sin embargo un fundamento reflexivo que el lector no deja de apreciar. Viene, pues, muy bien la publicación de El árbol y el camino, conjunto de breves ensayos del autor sobre los temas de su preocupación artística. El lector de habla española los necesitaba para ahondar en la obra de uno de los pocos escritores franceses que nos han llamado verdaderamente la atención en los últimos años.

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If not by nature, then by habit, people tend to match one thing with another—man and woman, laughter and tears, sickness and health, fire and water, master and servant—thereby accentuating similarities and contrasts and opening a field of relations. In The Mirror of Ideas, Michel Tournier examines these pairs and a host of others to demonstrate how pairing one object or idea with another generates the work of imagination, philosophy, and creative thinking of all kinds. Tournier treats pairs both lowly and exalted—moving from fork and spoon, horse and bull, cat and dog, to fear and anguish, poetry and prose, body and soul, being and nothingness. Hardly an exhaustive inventory of traditional pairs, his selection nonetheless opens the door to patterns deeply embedded in culture and civilization, speech and writing, memory and habit. Possessed of both brilliant surfaces and surprising depths, Tournier’s myriad reflections on the mirror of language reveal why his works have generated international attention and acclaim.

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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 they grow up Jean rebels against it. He takes a mistress and deserts his brother, but Paul sets out to follow him in a pilgrimage that leads all around the world, through places that reflect their separation-the mirrored halls of Venice, the Zen gardens of Japan, the newly divided city of Berlin. The exquisite love story of Jean-Paul is set against the ugliness and pain of human existence. Gemini is a novel of extraordinary proportions, intricate images, and profound thought, in which Michel Tournier tells his fascinating story with an irresistible humor.

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