Sacred Union and Sacred Violence in Tournier's <em>Gilles et Jeanne</em>
Written in 1983, the novella Gilles et Jeanne seems to be one of Michel Tournier's simpler works at first glance. Yet, for all of its simplicity, Tournier does not repress his desire to lace the tale with metaphoric and metaphysical symbolism. It is through a symbolic marriage on the battlefiel...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2011
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2494 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3493&context=etd |