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Giono: Master of Fictional Modes
By (Author) Norma Lorre Goodrich
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
843.91
Hardback
310
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
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 tr