The Malediction

by Jean Giono

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Le premier livre de Jean Giono que j'ai lu ou plutôt, le premier que j'ai lu avec passion (le vrai premier, Le Chant du Monde, a mis plusieurs années et plusieurs tentatives de lecture à s'imposer à moi...).
Le Moulin de Pologne, c'est la période sombre de Giono, celle de la perte des certitudes et des repères. Pas d'ode à la nature, pas de lyrisme provençal dont l'objet n'est pas toujours clair ni emballant. Ici le destin règne en maître et le destin est noir, forcément. On y retrouve des thèmes chers à l'auteur sur la dureté du monde, la froideur des événements et la grandeur des hommes. Comme Langlois dans un Roi sans divertissement (le chef d'oeuvre...), ceux qui traversent le Moulin de Pologne voient plus loin que show more leurs rêves et que la médiocrité, mais il n'y a pas d'échappatoire.
Giono y manie une langue souvent saccadée mais pure, mélange inimitable de classicisme et de langage oral.
Un très beau livre.
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Jean Giono was born in France on March 30, 1985. He was an author about whom Germaine Bree and M. Guiton have written, "When Giono's first novel, Colline (Hill of Destiny) appeared in 1929, it struck a fresh, new note. . . . After Proust and Gide, Duhamel and Romains, Cocteau and Giraudoux, what could be more restful than a world of wind and sun show more and simple men who apparently had never heard of psychological analysis, never confronted any social problems, never read any books. . ." (An Age of Fiction). Raised by his shoemaker father in a small town in the south of France, Giono's fiction has its roots in the peasant life of Provence. Horrified by his experiences in World War I, Giono returned to the world of his youth, which became the world of his imagination. After the shock of World War II, his novels seemed to gain in stature. One of his best is Horseman on the Roof (1951), his chronicle of the great cholera epidemic of 1838. Giono was honoured with the Prince Rainier of Monaco literary prize in 1953, awarded for his lifetime achievements, was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1954, and became a member of the Conseil Littéraire of Monaco in 1963. Giono died of a heart attack in 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
The Malediction
Original title
Le moulin de Pologne
Original publication date
1952
People/Characters*
Coste; Mlle Hortense; M. Joseph
First words*
Le domaine du Moulin de Pologne, si orgueilleux jadis, tomba entre les mains d'un homme que tout le monde appelait M. Joseph.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)J'eus, naturellement, une crise de rhumatismes qui me tint au lit pendant plus de trois semaines. Quand elle fut finit - porte fermée - je me remis à mes fleurs.
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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848Literature & rhetoricFrench LiteratureFrench miscellaneous writings
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PQ2613 .I57 .M69Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesFrench literatureModern literature1900-1960
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