Giono
Americannoun
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Based on a 1953 fable by Jean Giono, Back’s beautifully impressionistic drawings make a simple argument for environmental renewal and individual agency.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022
And “Joy of Man’s Desiring,” Clara Hédouin’s back-to-nature adaptation of a 1935 Jean Giono novel, took full advantage of its unusual setting.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022
It's not easy to write a pastiche of Gide, Proust, Giono, Mauriac, Sartre or Camus, but you could teach a six-year-old to do Céline.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
Jean Giono has been called the French Thoreau.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Giono has little of Thoreau's warm passion for facts of nature, even less of his intellectual Puritanism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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