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Marcel Pagnol

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

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Title	:	Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs (Two Novels)
Author	:	Marcel Pagnol
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1988 by North Point Press (first published 1963)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Literature

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In Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs, Marcel Pagnol (called by Andre Malraux "one of the great writers of our generation" and by Jean Renoir "the leading film artist of his age") achieves the fullest and most satisfying expression of a story that haunted him for years, a Provencal legend of vengeance exacted by a mysterious sheperdess. Pagnol brings to his treatment of this powerful, moving story his dramatist's sense of place, ambience, and character and his keen understanding of the Provencal countryside and its people. Rich with twists and ramifications, Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs sets an idealistic city man against two secretive and deceitful Provencal country men in a superbly realized story of a struggle for life, of crime and punishment, of betrayal and revenge, and of judgment and forgiveness. In this edition, illustrated with images from the acclaimed film adaptation by Claude Berri, North Point presents Pagnol's enduring story in W.E. van Heyningen's exact and sensitive translation.

Biblical in its cadences, epic in its sweep to destiny, and old fashioned in development of character and plot, this saga charts the destruction of a Provencal family.

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Original Title:	L'Eau des collines
ISBN:	0865473129 (ISBN13: 9780865473126)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	France

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Two short novels that work best as one longer novel. Pagnol details the tragic greed of two Provencal peasants which costs the life of a man, and how his daughter decides to avenge his death. The rural landscape near Marseille is beautifully described; possibly THE novel about French peasant life.

Provence is a magical place where the light is orange on everything it touches, lavender and sun flowers fill the fields, and the people walk gruffly through your heart. I was lucky enough to live in Montpellier, France for a month when I was in college. Right outside the town are purple fields and golden roads and the sun, sun, sun is everywhere. Marcel Pagnol was a native of this region and his books capture the heat and the heartaches that this country is steeped in. Both of these books were

Jean de Florette: The Water of the Hills, première partieJean de Florette is the first part of Marcel Pagnol's moving, humorous, mournful, triumphant two-part novel titled The Water of the Hills. His story, set in the bucolic hillside of Provence, is a lesson in the power of nature- of the land in its capacity for sustaining life and destroying it; it represents the varying shades of human nature, determined resolve and resilience. Family, and the continuity of generations are also a significant

L'eau des Collines, Jean De Florette = The Water of the Hills and Manon of the Springs (Two Novels), Marcel PagnolThe Water of the Hills is the collective name for two novels by Marcel Pagnol. Jean de Florette, and, Manon des Sources, both originally published in 1963 and first published in English in 1966, are set in the hills of Provence in Southern France in the early twentieth century and together tell a tale of deception, betrayal and revenge. Both books were filmed in 1986.Jean de Florette

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I love these books. Great story, marvelous characters tenderly drawn, subtle psychology, and all in the service of a gentle meditation on chance and fate. I can't recommend these highly enough.

6 JUL 2018 - film today - Jean de Florette (1986) - and, it is a wonderful film. The film is in the original French, of which I have none. Thank good for subtitles. I do own this book - a 2-in-1 novel - which I will begin reading tonight.9 JUL 2018 - the films were presented back-to-back and were each equally wonderful. The novels are sublime. It is a rare thing when film and book are equally outstanding - this is that rare time.