Jean Giono, Author, Henri Fluchere, Translator, Geoffrey Myers, Translator Harvill Press $13 (112p) ISBN 978-1-86046-266-5
First published in France in 1930, Giono's lush tale of love and loss is being reissued in a new translation and illustrated with 12 provocative woodcuts by L.W. Graux. Giono (1895-1970) was French-born, of Italian origin, and wrote such beloved...
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Jean Giono, trans. from the French by Paul Eprile. New York Review Books, $14 ISBN 978-1-59017-918-5
In this 1929 classic, an elegiac ode to Provence, Giono tells a simple tale of peasants living in a valley. At the outset we are introduced to 12 characters living in four houses at the foot of a hill. In one house is Gondran, Marguerite, and her...
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Jean Giono, Author, John Cumming, Translator Marlboro Press $33 (188p) ISBN 978-0-8101-6027-9
Around 1951, French writer Giono (1895-1970)--who in these pages claims that he is not a traveler.... I seem scarcely to have moved in fifty years""--left his staid, familiar life and traveled with his wife and another couple to post-WWII Italy....
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Jean Giono, Author, Jan Wiese, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator Harvill Press $12 (185p) ISBN 978-1-86046-024-1
This jumbled fable of a first novel by a Norwegian writer revolves elliptically around the unearthing of an unknown, magnificent Renaissance painting of the Madonna and Child and the further discoveries of the stories surrounding its creation. The...
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Jean Giono, trans. from the French by Paul Eprile. New York Review Books, $14 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-68137-137-5
Giono’s experimental short work is not a full-length novel, nor does it have much to do with the real Herman Melville. It is a 20th-century French novelist’s fantasy of what it would be like to be a 19th-century genius inspired to write a...
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Jean Giono, trans. from the French by Alyson Waters. New York Review Books, $14.95 trade paper (182p) ISBN 978-1-68137-309-6
This strange and disquieting novel from Giono (Melville) is set in an unnamed Alpine village and begins in 1843, when its residents begin disappearing. First, a young woman disappears, then a pig is slashed, then a hunter disappears. Captain...
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Jean Giono, trans. from the French by Bill Johnston. Archipelago, $16 trade paper (172p) ISBN 978-1-953861-12-2
Giono (Colline) offers a steady flow of rich imagery and biographical tidbits about the denizens of a mountainous region of southwestern France in this sensual pastoral. The unnamed narrator unleashes what he’s gleaned from local gossip in a stream...
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