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 ...

Jean Giono was born in 1895, the son of a laundress and an artisan cobbler in the southern French town of Manosque. Though his grandfather had once worked with the father of no less a literary figure ...

The appearance of any new editions of works by France's Jean Giono (1895- 1970) is reason for rejoicing. A national treasure in his home country and a cult figure abroad, Giono had a poverty-stricken ...

Jean Giono's 1947 novel, A King Alone, concerning a spate of mysterious disappearances and the eccentric French policeman attached to solving them is decidedly off-beat. Langlois – we never get his ...

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 ...

Jean Giono was closely associated with Provence. He lived there his whole life (1895-1970), scarcely travelling anywhere else. It was the setting of his many novels, and he wrote regularly of local ...

“There’s nothing unknown in this world anymore. Every new generation is forced to fabricate the exceptional and the unfamiliar for itself, through wars and big, militaristic institutions.” So laments ...

OVER the past three years I have regularly mentioned the quickly maturing woodland that I planted just six years ago in a small overgrown field. Nearly all the 200 or so trees were planted bare-root ...