Jean Giono: 29 books

Book cover of Jean le bleu
by Jean Giono
Language: French
Release Date: October 12, 2005

Jean Giono est né et mort à Manosque (1895-1970). Dans leur majeure partie, la vie et l'oeuvre de Jean Giono s'enracinent en Haute-Provence. Conteur exalté, chantre d'une nature et d'une paysannerie quasi mythologique, pacifiste entêté (Le Serpent d'étoiles, Triomphe de la vie), il est aussi...
Book cover of Profil - Giono (Jean) : Un roi sans divertissement

Profil - Giono (Jean) : Un roi sans divertissement

Analyse littéraire de l'oeuvre

by Joël Dubosclard, Georges Decote, Jean Giono
Language: French
Release Date: August 27, 2003

L’ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser le roman de Jean Giono. • Le résumé et les repères pour la lecture sont suivis de l’étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles : – La troupe des figurants – Le mystère Langlois – Cruauté et violence – Le thème du divertissement. •...
Book cover of Lettera ai contadini sulla povertà e la pace
by Jean Giono
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 20, 2013

In questo scritto vibrante e poetico, troviamo nella sua forma più limpida e completa il pensiero morale che sottende a tutta l’opera di Jean Giono: la superiorità della natura sulla tecnologia, la salvezza dell’uomo attraverso un lavoro naturale, la celebrazione dell’individualismo spinto...
Book cover of Melville: A Novel
by Jean Giono
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

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,...
Book cover of Le anime forti
by Jean Giono
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2015

È la metà del Novecento, in un piccolo borgo della campagna francese: la servitù al castello di Percy trascorre la notte a vegliare il defunto padrone e, come puntualmente accade in quest’angolo sperduto della Francia, a banchettare e a sparlare liberamente. Tra sussurri e imprecazioni, allusioni...
Book cover of The Solitude of Compassion
by Jean Giono
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

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...
Book cover of The Horseman on the Roof
by Jean Giono
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014

Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and which was published in 1951, expanded and solidified...
Book cover of Naissance de l'Odyssée
by Jean Giono
Language: French
Release Date: November 14, 2002

En fait d'Odyssée, il semble que le retour d'Ulysse à Ithaque tienne davantage de l'école buissonnière et qu'il soit plutôt hâté par l'annonce de l'infidélité de Pénélope. Mais que dire lorsque l'on vous somme de justifier une absence de dix ans ? Peu de choses, suggère Giono, un mensonge......
Book cover of L'uomo che piantava gli alberi
by Jean Giono
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Durante una delle sue passeggiate in Provenza, Jean Giono ha incontrato una personalità indimenticabile: un pastore solitario e tranquillo, di poche parole, che provava piacere a vivere lentamente, con le pecore e il cane. Nonostante la sua semplicità e la totale solitudine nella quale viveva, quest’uomo...
Book cover of Hill
by Jean Giono
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world—a miming cat, a malevolent boar—displays a mind of its...
Book cover of A King Alone
by Jean Giono
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019

An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time A King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when...
Book cover of Blue Boy
by Jean Giono
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

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.
Book cover of Regain
by Jean Giono
Language: French
Release Date: May 11, 2011

Aubignane se meurt. Seuls trois fidèles occupent encore ce village devenu un nid de spectres. L'hiver finit par chasser le vieux forgeron, et la veuve du puisatier disparaît au printemps, avec la promesse qu'elle avait faite à Panturle de lui trouver une femme. Au village, désormais, ne reste...
Book cover of Un re senza distrazioni
by Jean Giono
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 11, 2016

«*Con pochi, genialissimi tratti Giono evoca l’atmosfera del male che a poco a poco avvolge e penetra e si insinua nelle case: tutto non è più che delitto e ossessione del delitto.*»Pietro Citati È il 1843. La sparizione improvvisa di due persone a distanza di tempo sconvolge la quiete...
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