Giono

Author : Norma Lorre Goodrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400869183

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Giono by Norma Lorre Goodrich Pdf

Since his death in October 1970, Jean Giono's reputation as a major French novelist has steadily increased. In order to treat most powerfully the essential nature of modern man confronted with the worst problems of the twentieth century, he adapted into prose the tried and true literary modes: the epic, the pastoral, Greek tragedy, Shakespearean tragedy, and autobiography. In Giono's work the old modes and familiar forms continue to fulfill the age-old functions of great literature: we see the Christian epic suddenly made relevant to everyday life or the pagan epic re-explain modern male savagery. In Giono's hands the novel explains man to himself, shows man more clearly the world about him, and offers to men everywhere renewed courage and hope. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jean Giono
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609800314

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The Solitude of Compassion by Jean Giono Pdf

The Solitude of Compassion, a collection of short stories never before available in English, won popular acclaim when it was originally published in France in 1932. It tells of small-town life in Provence, drawing on a whole village of fictional characters, often warm and decent, at times immoral and coarse. Giono writes of a friendship forged in a battlefield trench in the midst of World War I; an old man’s discovery of the song of the world; and, in the title story, the not-unrelated feelings of compassion and pity. In these twenty stories, Giono reveals his marvelous storytelling through his vivid images and lyrical prose, whether he is conveying the delicate scents of lavender and pine trees or the smells of damp earth and fresh blood.

Author : Karen L. Taylor
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780816074990

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The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel by Karen L. Taylor Pdf

French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.

Author : Richard J. Golsan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801882583

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French Writers and the Politics of Complicity by Richard J. Golsan Pdf

Focusing on the political commitments of three French writers who collaborated with the Vichy Regime and Nazi Germany during World War II, and on those of three leading French intellectuals of the 1990s whose misplaced political idealism led them to support xenophobic, authoritarian regimes and dangerous historical revisionisms, Richard J. Golsan reexamines the notion of political commitment or engagement in two difficult periods in modern French history. Discussing the fiction, essays, and journalism of Henry de Montherlant, Jean Giono, and Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Golsan explores the complexity of artistic and intellectual collaboration during the German Occupation. He demonstrates that, in this context, complicity with political evil often derived from "nonpolitical" motives including sexual orientation, antimodern aesthetics, and dangerously skewed religious beliefs. Turning to the post–cold war era of the 1990s, Golsan examines the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut's support for Croatian independence, the "mediologist" Régis Debray's pro-Serb stance during the bombing of Kosovo, and the historian Stéphane Courtois's revisionist comparison of Nazi and Communist crimes during the 1997 debate surrounding the publication of The Black Book of Communism. In these three cases, laudable motives—and misguided historical comparisons with Vichy, Nazism, and the Occupation period that marked the political and intellectual discourses of France in the 1990s—resulted, paradoxically, in antidemocratic engagements profoundly at odds with the original motivations behind these intellectuals' commitments. In each of these case studies, political complicity derives from a combination of passions and ideals—whether positive or negative, emotional or intellectual—as well as a desire to make the present conform to a particular and generally skewed vision of the past. The full implications of these involvements are neither fully grasped nor understood by their authors, either through lack of objectivity, rationality, or imagination or through willful ignorance. The results are always unfortunate and often disastrous. Considered together, these six intellectuals serve as sobering reminders that political commitments are never as simple or straightforward as they seem and that admirable motives for political involvement can have dangerous and destructive consequences in historical practice.

Author : Jean Giono
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681371375

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Melville: A Novel by Jean Giono Pdf

Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick, Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essay, Melville: A Novel—part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle. Paul Eprile was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize for his translation of Melville.

Author : William J. Thompson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575911256

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French XX Bibliography by William J. Thompson Pdf

This annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. Unique in its scope, thoroughness, and reliability of information, it has become an essential reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema. Number 59 in the series contains 12,703 entries. William J. Thompson is Associate Professor of French and Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis.

Author : Jean Albert Bédé,William Benbow Edgerton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231037171

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Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature by Jean Albert Bédé,William Benbow Edgerton Pdf

With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.

Author : Jean Giono
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0810160285

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An Italian Journey by Jean Giono Pdf

In An Italian Journey, Jean Giono describes his journey to the land of his father's people. A reluctant traveler (he rarely left Provence), Giono discovers a strange beauty not only in the palazzi and canals of Venice but also in wistful waiters, suspicious hairdressers, pugnacious men of God, recalcitrant coffeemakers, umbrellas, and field machinery. In Giono's world a stamp collectors' market can appear to verge on revolution and inept municipal musicians suddenly offer Mozartian joys.

Author : Maxwell Austin Smith
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : UOM:39015033368526

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Jean Giono by Maxwell Austin Smith Pdf

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811201082

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The Books in My Life by Henry Miller Pdf

In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.

Author : Douglas W. Alden,Richard A. Brooks
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 2178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0815622058

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A Critical Bibliography of French Literature by Douglas W. Alden,Richard A. Brooks Pdf

Author : Jean Giono
Publisher : Peter Owen Modern Classics (20
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0720621011

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To the Slaughterhouse by Jean Giono Pdf

Long regarded as one of France's finest writers of the twentieth century, Jean Giono is best known for his ecological bestseller The Man Who Planted Trees, but this neglected classic, published in 1931, is his masterpiece. Set during the First World War, conscription comes to a rural Provençal community, and its young men leave for the trenches on the Western Front. Based on his experiences at the battle of Verdun, at which he was one of only eleven survivors from his company, Giono produced one of the most powerful and affecting accounts of war ever written. This unflinchingly realistic yet at times intensely poetic novel grimly contrasts the destruction of men, land and animals at the front with the disintegration of daily life and accepted morality back home in a remote community with its own savagery, lusts and yearnings. Giono ends his masterwork with a message of hope, reflecting his faith in the ability of the earth to renew itself, which readers of The Man Who Planted Trees will find familiar. Part of the new look Peter Owen Modern Classics range featuring a logo crafted by graphic design icon Alvin Lustig.

Author : Edward Bruce Ford
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106017087997

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Jean Giono's Hidden Reality by Edward Bruce Ford Pdf

This volume demonstrates that throughout his career, Jean Giono believed that true reality was hidden behind appearances.

Author : Jean Giono
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473383937

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Blue Boy by Jean Giono Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1579580106

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Literature of Nature by Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.