Author: Jean Giono
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1953861121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely lived Ennemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde’s astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean Giono immerses us in the perverse and often lurid lifeways of the people of the High Country, where vengeance is an art form, hearts are superfluous, and only boldness and cunning such as Ennemonde’s can win the day. A gleeful, broad sardonic grin of a novel. "Roads move cautiously around the High Country..." So begins the story of Ennemonde, but also of her sons, daughters, neighbors, lovers, and enemies, and especially of the mountains that stand guard behind their home in the Camargue. This is a place of stark and terrifying beauty, where violence strikes suddenly, whether from the hand of a neighbor or from the sky itself. Giono captures every wrinkle, glare, and glance with wry delight, celebrating the uniquely tough people whose eyes sparkle with the cruel majesty of the landscape. Full of delectable detours and startling insights, Ennemonde will take you by the hand for an unforgettable tour of this master novelist's singular world.
Ennemonde
Author: Jean Giono
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1953861121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely lived Ennemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde’s astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean Giono immerses us in the perverse and often lurid lifeways of the people of the High Country, where vengeance is an art form, hearts are superfluous, and only boldness and cunning such as Ennemonde’s can win the day. A gleeful, broad sardonic grin of a novel. "Roads move cautiously around the High Country..." So begins the story of Ennemonde, but also of her sons, daughters, neighbors, lovers, and enemies, and especially of the mountains that stand guard behind their home in the Camargue. This is a place of stark and terrifying beauty, where violence strikes suddenly, whether from the hand of a neighbor or from the sky itself. Giono captures every wrinkle, glare, and glance with wry delight, celebrating the uniquely tough people whose eyes sparkle with the cruel majesty of the landscape. Full of delectable detours and startling insights, Ennemonde will take you by the hand for an unforgettable tour of this master novelist's singular world.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1953861121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely lived Ennemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde’s astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean Giono immerses us in the perverse and often lurid lifeways of the people of the High Country, where vengeance is an art form, hearts are superfluous, and only boldness and cunning such as Ennemonde’s can win the day. A gleeful, broad sardonic grin of a novel. "Roads move cautiously around the High Country..." So begins the story of Ennemonde, but also of her sons, daughters, neighbors, lovers, and enemies, and especially of the mountains that stand guard behind their home in the Camargue. This is a place of stark and terrifying beauty, where violence strikes suddenly, whether from the hand of a neighbor or from the sky itself. Giono captures every wrinkle, glare, and glance with wry delight, celebrating the uniquely tough people whose eyes sparkle with the cruel majesty of the landscape. Full of delectable detours and startling insights, Ennemonde will take you by the hand for an unforgettable tour of this master novelist's singular world.
Giono
Author: Norma Lorre Goodrich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400869188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400869188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
The London and Paris Observer
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The Song of the World
Author: Jean Giono
Publisher: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9781860467653
Category : Missing persons
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Song of the World is a tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest.
Publisher: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9781860467653
Category : Missing persons
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Song of the World is a tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest.
Blue Boy
Author: Jean Giono
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473383935
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Blue Boy is a 1932 novel by the 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.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473383935
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Blue Boy is a 1932 novel by the 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.
French Novelists, 1930-1960
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Contains twenty-seven alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about significant French novelists active between 1930 and 1960; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Contains twenty-seven alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about significant French novelists active between 1930 and 1960; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
The Song of the World
Author: Jean Giono
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
There is still dew on this world of Giono's he looks out on it and records his impressions of it almost as if he were the first man seeing it. The emotions of his people are refreshingly forthright and uncomplicated and in his pages man stands in his natural relation to the animate and inanimate world about him'- New York Times'To no author I have recommended has there been a response such as hailed the reading of Giono...Giono gives us the world we live in, a world of dream, passion and reality'- Henry MillerThe Song of the World is a tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest and in the cycle of the seasons.
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
There is still dew on this world of Giono's he looks out on it and records his impressions of it almost as if he were the first man seeing it. The emotions of his people are refreshingly forthright and uncomplicated and in his pages man stands in his natural relation to the animate and inanimate world about him'- New York Times'To no author I have recommended has there been a response such as hailed the reading of Giono...Giono gives us the world we live in, a world of dream, passion and reality'- Henry MillerThe Song of the World is a tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest and in the cycle of the seasons.
Distant Transit
Author: Maja Haderlap
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1953861164
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
From a groundbreaking Slovenian-Austrian poet comes an evocative, captivating collection on searching for home in a landscape burdened with violent history. At its core, Distant Transit is an ode to survival, building a monument to traditions and lives lost. Infused with movement, Maja Haderlap’s Distant Transit traverses Slovenia’s scenic landscape and violent history, searching for a sense of place within its ever-shifting boundaries. Avoiding traditional forms and pronounced rhythms, Haderlap unleashes a flow of evocative, captivating passages whose power lies in their associative richness and precision of expression, vividly conjuring Slovenia’s natural world––its rolling meadows, snow-capped alps, and sparkling Adriatic coast. Belonging to the Slovene ethnic minority and its inherited, transgenerational trauma, Haderlap explores the burden of history and the prolonged aftershock of conflict––warm, lavish pastoral passages conceal dark memories, and musings on the way language can create and dissolve borders reveal a deep longing for a sense of home.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1953861164
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
From a groundbreaking Slovenian-Austrian poet comes an evocative, captivating collection on searching for home in a landscape burdened with violent history. At its core, Distant Transit is an ode to survival, building a monument to traditions and lives lost. Infused with movement, Maja Haderlap’s Distant Transit traverses Slovenia’s scenic landscape and violent history, searching for a sense of place within its ever-shifting boundaries. Avoiding traditional forms and pronounced rhythms, Haderlap unleashes a flow of evocative, captivating passages whose power lies in their associative richness and precision of expression, vividly conjuring Slovenia’s natural world––its rolling meadows, snow-capped alps, and sparkling Adriatic coast. Belonging to the Slovene ethnic minority and its inherited, transgenerational trauma, Haderlap explores the burden of history and the prolonged aftershock of conflict––warm, lavish pastoral passages conceal dark memories, and musings on the way language can create and dissolve borders reveal a deep longing for a sense of home.
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.