Anglais Jean Giono : a king alone (édition en anglais)

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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 the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with cloud. One such winter, villagers begin mysteriously to disappear. Soon the village is paralyzed by terror, which gives way to relief and eager anticipation when the outsider Langlois arrives to investigate. What he discovers, however, will leave no one reassured, and his reappearance in the village a few years later, now assigned the task of guarding it from wolves, awakens those troubling memories. A man of few words, a regal manner, and military efficiency, Langlois baffles and fascinates the villagers, whose different responses to him shape Jean Giono's increasingly charged narrative. This novel about a tiny community at the dangerous edge of things and a man of law who is a man alone could be described as a metaphysical Western. It unfolds with the uncanny inevitability and disturbing intensity of a dream.


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  • Auteur(s)

    Jean Giono

  • Éditeur

    Random House Us

  • Distributeur

    Interart

  • Date de parution

    25/06/2019

  • EAN

    9781681373096

  • Disponibilité

    Disponible

  • Nombre de pages

    176 Pages

  • Longueur

    20.3 cm

  • Largeur

    12.8 cm

  • Poids

    401 g

  • Support principal

    Grand format

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Jean Giono

Nascut a Manòsca (1895-1970), Joan Giono passèt la vida dins son agre de Provença. Forçat de quitar los estudis a causa de dificultats financièras de la familha, fai l'emplegat dins una banca, ocupacion que li permet de far coneissença amb lo monde paisan e lo país lèime, pendent sos deplaçaments. En 1921, escriu son primièr libre, Colline, puèi Un de Baumugnes e Regain. Sa literatura embugada de panteïsme, trepada pel diu Pan, s'abalís a doas fonts : en primièr, la Provença, pas la reala, una Provença imaginària, mai veraia que natura que l'autor a sabut ne traire l'autenticitat secretosa, puèi l'antiquitat grèga e sa mitologia.
Lo reviraireLo reviraire : Jacme Fijac es l'autor d'un desenat de libres de subjèctes desparièrs. Passionat de Joan Giono, lo moment vengut, a entreprés la traduccion d'aquel libre. Son de notar los nombroses manlèus a la lenga occitana qu'an de qué susvengut, susprene en çò d'un autor que presava pas gaire los que l'escrivián, mas que los sovenirs s'èran escrincelats, malgrat el, dins prene son cap.

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