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Jean de Florette - French
Author: Marcel Pagnol

In Jean de Florette, Marcel Pagnol (called by Andre Malraux "one of the great writers of our generation" and by Jean Renoir "the leading film artist of his age") achieves the fullest and most satisfying expression of a story that haunted him for years, a Provencal legend of vengeance exacted by a mysterious shepherdess. Pagnol brings to his trea... more »tment of this powerful, moving story his dramatist's sense of place, ambiance, and character and his keen understanding of the Provencal countryside and its people. Rich with twists and ramifications, Jean de Florette sets an idealistic city man against two secretive and deceitful Provencal country men in a superbly realized story of a struggle for life, of crime and punishment, of betrayal and revenge, and of judgment and forgiveness.

Playwright, filmmaker and novelist Pagnol (1895-1974) affectionately celebrated his native Provence along with the shrewdness and comic foibles of the folk. Jean Cadoret is a hunchback of charm and intelligence who comes from town to settle on his inherited estate where he plans to farm scientifically. His wife Aimee, a former small-time opera singer, and adoring little daughter Manon work by his side. But the jealous Soubeyrans -- the local patriarch Cesar and his nephew, the clownish Ugolin -- craftily plug up a spring on Jean's farm and wait for him to fail. When a cruel summer drought drives Jean to despair and eventually death, the Soubeyrans buy his land cheaply and divert the water for their own lucrative carnation farm. Pagnol depicts his villagers as post-Roman pagans whose "natural brutality" shows through their Christian veneer. As in the author's earlier naturalist novels, the landscape and the willful spring are forces molding human fates. Those who offend nature, here lushly described, pay a penalty. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

With sweeping strokes Pagnol creates Greek tragedy in the hillsides north of Marseilles, hills teeming with wild game, fragrant with fig and almond trees, but only fitfully fed by underground streams. It is the search for precious water to irrigate his crops that drives the hunchbacked idealist Jean de Florette to his death. The charm of Pagnol's work lies in his love for the peasants of his native Provence. Lisa Mullenneaux, Iowa City Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9782877065115
ISBN-10: 2877065111
Publication Date: 6/30/2004
Pages: 285
Edition: 2
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Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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