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Surprisingly fewer steps removed from, say, Algernon Blackwood, than one might expect.

Giono made a point to title this work ‘Hill’, as opposed to ‘The Hill’. By removing the article, Giono is suggesting what just about every reader will come to find for themselves; that said Hill is our protagonist in this slim novel. It starts off a little strange, and never really stops being stran Leggi tutto

Jean Giono 's Hill is the tale of several Provencal peasants living in an isolated hillside community facing the ravages of a nature gone mad. Their patriarch, the half-paralyzed Janet frightens them with tales of their folly in the face of nature: Earth isn't made for you alone to keep on using the w Leggi tutto

Interessant de comparer le Giono d'avant et après guerre, vraiment. 💚🍃✨️

un récit captivant et haletant qui ne fait pas oublier, malgré tout, la pénibilité de ce style cru, parfois proche de la didascalie, qui rend la lecture laborieuse et souligne la répétition soporifique des gestes de l’homme qui, contre la nature, ne possède que quelques outils. c’est un beau texte s Leggi tutto

Wondermooi boekje. Over de fragiele symbiose tussen mens en natuur, waarbij de ene keer de mens het overwicht haalt en op andere momenten dan weer de natuur. Geschreven in 1929 en toch voelt het op geen enkel moment gedateerd aan, noch wat betreft het verhaal noch wat betreft het taalgebruik, dat tijd Leggi tutto

I have a professed weakness for a certain type of novel. Should it exist in some sylvan world in which quasi-gnostic/pseudo-gnomic traditions prevail; if some undefined chthonic power seems to hold malignant sway; and if humanity is held within the yaw and roll of these fablistic conventions: I am s Leggi tutto