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The Song of the World (French: Le Chant du monde) is a 1934 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. The narrative portrays a river and human vendettas as a part of nature. The story contains references to the Iliad. Its themes and view on nature were heavily inspired by Walt Whitman's poetry collection Leaves of Grass. [1]
Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent [1] and his mother a laundry woman. He spent the majority of his life in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
The Open Road (French: Les Grands Chemins) is a 1951 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. New York Review Books published it in English translation by Paul Eprile on 17 August 2021. [1] The Open Road was the basis for the 1963 film Of Flesh and Blood , directed by Christian Marquand. [2]
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The Man Who Planted Trees (French title: L'homme qui plantait des arbres), also known as The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953. It tells the story of one shepherd's long and successful singlehanded effort to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the Alps , near Provence ...
The writer Jean Giono had a breakthrough in the early 1930s with novels about the peasant population of his native Provence. He was displeased with city life and with machine society, which he linked to warfare. On 1 September 1935, Giono and a few other authors moved to a secluded area in the mountains near Manosque. The aim was to live close ...
Joy of Man's Desiring (French: Que ma joie demeure) is a 1936 novel by the French writer Jean Giono.The story takes place in an early 20th-century farmer's community in southern France, where the inhabitants suffer from a mysterious disease, while a healer tries to save them by teaching the value of joy.
The Horseman on the Roof (orig. French Le Hussard sur le toit) is a 1951 adventure novel by French writer Jean Giono. [1] It tells the story of Angelo Pardi, a young Italian carbonaro colonel of hussars, caught up in the 1832 cholera epidemic in Provence. In 1995, it was made into a film of the same name directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.