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If all books were to be destroyed and I had the ability to save just one, this is the one I would save. Like all of Giono's early works, it's a parable set outside of historical time, evoking the deepest mysteries of human nature and ecology, showing how people work together with each other and thei Leggi tutto

Thanks to the handy intro to Melville by the ever-dandy Edmund White, whom I must get back to someday, I now know that Giono's career can be roughly split into two distinct eras. Let's call the second era, everything post-Melville, The Bark, and the second The Below It. One will find Harvest as a ke Leggi tutto

Second Harvest centres around Panturle who lives in a small Provençal village, Aubignane; a village that is on the decline and near to extinction as it only has three inhabitants. We initially find out about the inhabitants of Aubignane from some members of a nearby town, one of whom used to live in Leggi tutto

I finished this book in front of a small fire, a large cat and on a full stomach. My sister’s house has an overstuffed leather armchair and a bank of glass windows that look out to the street. Whenever I finished a chapter I tried think about what I just read (and avoid staring too long at the spry Leggi tutto

Fin berättelse om en man samklang med den plats han bor. Detta är den första bok jag läst av Jean Giono och den gav mersmak. Giono beskrivs som att han var en naturromantiker - och det är nästan en underdrift.

Magnifique récit naturel et humaniste

une narration très poétique