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Michel Tournier and The Secrets of the Self
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19881211
Author:Richard Howard
THE WIND SPIRIT
An Autobiography
By Michel Tournier
Translated from the French
By Arthur Goldhammer
Beacon Press. 259 pp. $19.95
THERE IS a lineage, or at least a sequence, of autobiographical narratives by admired French authors-Gide, Sartre and Sarraute come immediately to mind, and one can venture back to Anatole France and, ultimately, Stendhal as initiators of the category-to which Michel Tournier's brilliant and maddening book belongs.
Indeed, by its declared intellectualism ("My ambition was to interest readers {of novels} in the literary equivalent of such sublime metaphysical ...
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