Giono: Master of Fictional Modes

by Norma Lorre Goodrich

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691619123
• ISBN13: 9780691619125
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"