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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.
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 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 ...
The story "Jofroi de Maussan" was the basis for the 1934 film Jofroi directed by Marcel Pagnol. [3] Between 1987 and 1990, France 2 made a series of six Giono adaptations under the title L'ami Giono, of which three were based on stories from The Solitude of Compassion: Jofroi de la Maussan (1987), Solitude de la pitié (1988) and Ivan Ivanovitch Kossiakoff (1990).
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 (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in Manosque in the Provence region of France. Novels, novellas, chronicles [ edit ]
Blue Boy (French: Jean le Bleu) is a 1932 novel by French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes. An English translation by Katherine A. Clarke was published in 1946. [1]
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.