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| Title | : | Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs (Two Novels) |
| Author | : | Marcel Pagnol |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1988 by North Point Press (first published 1963) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Literature |
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In Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs, 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 sheperdess. Pagnol brings to his treatment of this powerful, moving story his dramatist's sense of place, ambience, and character and his keen understanding of the Provencal countryside and its people. Rich with twists and ramifications, Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs 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. In this edition, illustrated with images from the acclaimed film adaptation by Claude Berri, North Point presents Pagnol's enduring story in W.E. van Heyningen's exact and sensitive translation.Biblical in its cadences, epic in its sweep to destiny, and old fashioned in development of character and plot, this saga charts the destruction of a Provencal family.
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| Original Title: | L'Eau des collines |
| ISBN: | 0865473129 (ISBN13: 9780865473126) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | France |
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Ratings: 4.31 From 1126 Users | 97 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs (Two Novels)
I have a list of books I keep called "Books I can recommend to Any reader"...or something like that. These books, because they are two books in one volume, goes directly onto that list. I love it when I can add books to that list because its a rarity really to be able to do so, to find a book that can appeal to the masses. These books are translated from the French, and were also made into films (with sub-titles). This is my favorite kind of reading, when a book deals with serious themes, butJean de Florette, his wife Aimee and daughter Manon are the perfectly happy family, leaving the town life behind and getting back to nature. They have no experience for this endeavor but Jean relies on his books to predict the rainfall, for growing crops and for raising rabbits, etc. The entire family willingly worked themselves to the bone. I was joyful of their every success and mournful of every setback.Ugolin is an odious farmer/would-be-entrepreneur who covets Jean's land. Yet sometimes I
I saw the two novels in one (Jean de Florette and Manon Des Sources) and thought I would give it a try. What a superb story. I was so taken with it that I had to get the DVDs and then the audio tape.Set in the 1920s in Provence and full of the simplistic ways of life the story unfolds into tragedy, revenge, satisfaction and finally a bitter twist. Pagnol has a special way of bringing the characters to life and you feel that you are wandering around the arid landscape and hills in the heat
If you're tired of these tricky post-modern novels, with their antiheroes and unreliable narrators and structural cleverness, then here's the perfect antidote. A really good, old-fashioned story, where you can unashamedly identify with the main characters, grit your teeth at the bad guys' perfidy, and weep the odd tear. And there is no case in literary history where the book and the film are so perfectly integrated. Pagnol started with a movie, which he wrote partly as a vehicle for his
Amazingly, I enjoyed the books even more than the movies, and those are two of my most favorite movies. A very rare example of novels based on movie scripts.
Two short novels that work best as one longer novel. Pagnol details the tragic greed of two Provencal peasants which costs the life of a man, and how his daughter decides to avenge his death. The rural landscape near Marseille is beautifully described; possibly THE novel about French peasant life.
These were two of the most powerful movies I've ever seen, and it turns out they're based on books that are every bit as good.
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