num_pages: 240
description: Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." 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 a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.
language: English
title: Friday, or, The Other Island
titlecomplete: Friday, or, The Other Island
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, French Literature, Novels, School, Roman, Literature, Classics, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 3196
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press