Oh, Jean Giono! What a fairy-tale is this new Cahier
hi de L'Herne dedicated to this beloved author!
Giono has represented per generations the writer of the rural life: born in Provence, Giono supported spasmodically an existence distant from the city, and strongly connected with the most beautiful nature's values: we speak of trees, grass, farm animals, good wine and food from the natural products of farms and fruits trees.
It became a philosophy of life the one of Giono embraced in particular after the second world war by socialists, communists, jewish, minorities and people in search of tranquillity and peace.
Giono is not just this: he loved paintings and music, he appreciated poetry, he thought that friendship, largely treated in his books, was the best value of this world.
He adored several writers: Melville, Virgil, Homer, Machiavelli (he truly appreciated the florentian writer) and Hemingway for his writing-style; he was an avid diarist as you'll learn, someone researched and pantheistic in his description of nature, people, men and women.
He adored his wife and his children.
In the cahier you'll find letters to his family and friends. Friends and correspondents most of the time never met in real life as it happened with Henry Miller or Saint-Paul Roux: some not yet known writings, witnesses of his daughter with beautiful and touching anedocts and memories; poetry he adored; movies produced thanks to his books; pacifist, his most symblic book is represented by Que Ma Joie Demeure
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A wonderful cahier of a stunning writer.
Personally I consider this cahier a real treasure. I adore Giono and his messages to the humanity. Sometimes I ask to myself what he would think of the disappearance of many forests and trees in the world, so beloved in his books and which solutions he would proposes.
A wonderful Christmas Gift this one!
I thank L'Editions de L'Herne for the physical copy of the cahier.
Anna Maria Polidori
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