The Song of the World
Author | : Jean Giono |
Publisher | : New York : Viking Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1937 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105038104746 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: There is still dew on this world of Giono's he looks out on it and records his impressions of it almost as if he were the first man seeing it. The emotions of his people are refreshingly forthright and uncomplicated and in his pages man stands in his natural relation to the animate and inanimate world about him'- New York Times'To no author I have recommended has there been a response such as hailed the reading of Giono...Giono gives us the world we live in, a world of dream, passion and reality'- Henry MillerThe Song of the World is a tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest and in the cycle of the seasons.