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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 Horseman on the Roof (French: Le hussard sur le toit) is a 1995 French film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.Based on the 1951 French novel Le hussard sur le toit by Jean Giono, the film follows the adventures of a young Italian nobleman in France raising money for the Italian revolution against Austria during a time of cholera.
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.
Un roi sans divertissement (lit. "a king without distraction"), published in English as A King Alone, [1] is a 1947 novel by the French writer Jean Giono.The narrative is set between 1843 and 1848 in the French Prealps and follows a police officer who discovers unpleasant truths about himself during a murder investigation.
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 god Pan first occurred in Jean Giono's works in the 1924 poetry collection Accompagné de la flûte.He is then mentioned in Giono's private correspondence, appears in his first written novel Naissance de l'Odyssée, and was the subject of an unpublished magazine article in the 1920s.
The Open Road (Fr. Les Grands chemins) – Gallimard – 1951; The Horseman on the Roof (Fr. Le Hussard sur le toit) – Gallimard – 1951; The Malediction, (Fr. Le Moulin de Pologne) – 1952; The Man Who Planted Trees (Fr. L'homme qui plantait des arbres) – Reader's Digest – 1953; The Straw Man (Fr. Le Bonheur fou) – Éditions ...