Two Riders of the Storm - Couverture rigide

Giono, Jean

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0720691982 ISBN 13 : 9780720691986

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 1967

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the author of the international best-selling eco-parable The Man Who Planted Trees comes a powerful tale of brotherly love and rivalry, set in the remote hills of Provence.

Two brothers, Marceau and Ange are members of a family renowned and respected for its brutality. Bound by ties stronger than those of ordinary sibling love, they spend their lives drinking, wresting, selling mules and driving the local women to force fodder from the harsh soil.

But the equilibrium of their affection is unbalanced after Marceau slays a rampaging wild horse at a country fair with a single blow and then defeats two famous Provencal wrestling champions to become the local champion.

As the younger sibling jealously boils at his brother's exploits and growing fame, his own lust for power steadily develops. The bond must snap and the end, when it comes, is a violent and deadly confrontation.

In his evocation of struggle, love and pettiness, Giono is often compared to D.H. Lawrence. Unlike Lawrence's work, Two Riders of the Storm brims with a shocking and primitive vigour that lends immediacy to the Cain-and-Abel-like struggle for power. Readers of The Man Who Planted Trees and To the Saughterhouse will recognise the intense and stark poetic beauty of Giono's prose. Here it serves to distil the brutal imagery into the elemental forces of life death.

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Biographie de l'auteur

JEAN GIONO was born in the small Provencal town of Manosque. Giono's fictional Provence is an almost mythological place of harsh beauty and unforgiving people, a world away from the pastis, plane trees and boules evoked by his great friend Marcel Pagnol. Giono wrote more than thirty novels as well as many volumes of short stories, plays, poetry, essays and film scripts. After serving on the western front, Giono was gaoled for his pacifist views, and subsequently imprisoned again for the trumped-up charge of collaboration. His major works include To the Slaughterhouse and The Man Who Planted Trees, which, along with Two Riders of the Storm, have established him as one of the most distinguished of French writers. He died in Manosque, having spent the majority of his life there, in 1970.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0720691982
• ISBN 13: 9780720691986
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 227
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible