The Four Wise Men (French: Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar) is a 1980 novel by Michel Tournier, published by Éditions Gallimard.
[1] Jonathan Baumbach of The New York Times wrote that the words in the English translation were "a mix of modern idiom and literary diction".
[2] John Weightman of The Observer stated that there was "symbolic magnification" in this book; he argued that it had "incidental good things" though he felt overall it was "a luscious, rather over-loaded fairy-tale".
[2] Kirkus Reviews stated that compared to Gemini, the Four Wise Men has more "more narrative enchantment" thematically, and is not as "dense".
[4] Phoebe-Lou Adams of The Atlantic wrote that the work has "a real touch of magic".