Jean Giono: The Horseman On The Roof

Cover: 9781846553639 | The Horseman On The Roof | Jean Giono | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2009

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In the white heat the sky is opaque the air leaden and the light intense. A single cavalryman wonders at the oppressive atmosphere of the unfamiliar countryside he is entering. Exile from his Italian homeland as well as an innate stubborn pride compel him onward into the heart of Provence and into the acute cholera epidemic which ravaged the country in the 1830s.

Giono here directs a hallucinatory lyrical narrative in which the mortal odours the violent contractions of those who meet with the disease and the fear of a people confronted with insuperable natural forces are palpable. Death pervades the novel but Angelo does not cease journeying dodging blockades and quarantine imposed by troops - even seeking temporary refuge on the roofs of one town - determined to find his childhood friend Giuseppe. Others join him on the road and leave him. Only the young woman Pauline de Th us who calmly receives the intruder who one night descends from the roofs proves a worthy travelling companion.

Über den Autor

Jean Giono was born in 1895 in Manosque, Provence, and lived there most of his life. He supported his family working as a bank clerk for eighteen years before his first two novels were published, thanks to the generosity of Andr Gide, to critical acclaim. He went on to write thirty novels, including The Horseman on the Roof, and numerous essays and stories. In 1953, the year in which he wrote The Man who Planted Trees, he was awarded the Prix Mon gasque for his collective work. Jean Giono died in October 1970.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781846553639
ISBN-10:	1846553636
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Giono, Jean
Hersteller:	Harvill Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 126 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Jean Giono
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.12.2009
Gewicht:	0,448 kg