Anglais Jean Giono : the open road (édition en anglais ; préface)

Traduction PAUL EPRILE  - Langue d'origine : FRANCAIS

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A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees.

The south of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He picks up work along the way and spends the winter as the custodian of a walnut-oil mill. He also picks up a problematic companion: a cardsharp and con man, whom he calls "the Artist." The action moves from place to place, and episode to episode, in truly picaresque fashion. Everything is told in the first person, present tense, by the vagabond narrator, who goes unnamed. He himself is a curious combination of qualities--poetic, resentful, cynical, compassionate, flirtatious, and self-absorbed.

While The Open Road can be read as loosely strung entertainment, interspersed with caustic reflections, it can also be interpreted as a projection of the relationship of author, art, and audience. But it is ultimately an exploration of the tensions and boundaries between affection and commitment, and of the competing needs for solitude, independence, and human bonds. As always in Jean Giono, the language is rich in natural imagery and as ruggedly idiomatic as it is lyrical.

Rayons : Littérature générale > Biographie / Témoignage littéraire > Biographie

  • Auteur(s)

    Jean Giono

  • Traducteur

    PAUL EPRILE

  • Éditeur

    Random House Us

  • Distributeur

    Interart

  • Date de parution

    12/10/2021

  • EAN

    9781681375106

  • Disponibilité

    Disponible

  • Nombre de pages

    224 Pages

  • Longueur

    203 cm

  • Largeur

    127 cm

  • Poids

    249 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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