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Jean de Florette (L'Eau des Collines #1)

Marcel Pagnol

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 285 pages

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Title	:	Jean de Florette (L'Eau des Collines #1)
Author	:	Marcel Pagnol
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 285 pages
Published	:	July 1st 1974 by De Fallois (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Cultural. France. Fiction. Classics. European Literature. French Literature

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Au village des Bastides Blanches, on hait ceux de Crespin. C'est pourquoi lorsque Jean Cadoret, le Bossu, s'installe à la ferme des Romarins, on ne lui parle pas de la source cachée. Ce qui facilite les manœuvres des Soubevran, le Papet et son neveu Ugolin. qui veulent lui racheter son domaine à bas prix... Jean de Florette (1962), premier volume de L'Eau des collines, marque, trente ans après Pirouettes, le retour de Pagnol au roman. C'est l'épopée de l'eau nourricière sans laquelle rien n'est possible. Marcel Pagnol y développe l'histoire du père de Manon, évoquée sous forme de flash-back dans le filin Manon des sources (1952). Les dialogues sont savoureux, et la prose aussi limpide que dans les Souvenirs d'enfance. Quant au Papet et à Ugolin, à la fois drôles et terrifiants, ils sont parmi les créations les plus complexes de Pagnol. " Tri comprends, s'ils avaient bu l'eau de la citerne, c'est sûr qu'ils seraient morts tous les trois, et moi ça m'aurait embêté. D'avoir bouché la source, c'est pas criminel : c'est pour les œillets. Mais si, à cause de ça, il y avait des morts, eh bien peut-être qu'après nous n'en parlerions pas, mais nous y penserions.

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Original Title:	Jean de Florette
ISBN:	2877065111 (ISBN13: 9782877065115)
Edition Language:	French
Series:	L'Eau des Collines #1

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This is a novel that revolves around a tiny Provencal village and a farmer determined to wrestle a living out of a dilapidated farm, a farm that holds much promise. It is a novel that features lifestyles both simplistic and harsh, as drought and set-backs continue to thwart the farmer. We feel great sympathy for the farmer's plight and his charming family and we crave justice for Jean. This is the first of a series of stories, The Water of the Hills, and reading this novel will inspire you to

As the dark season is upon me here in the north, I start revisiting sunny locations, like the beautiful setting of rural Provence in Jean de Florette.I bought this book in Arles, in a perfect bookshop/coffee place/music store/cinema combination (in my next life I will work there!), and started reading it that same night, while still on vacation in Provence. The language, the characters, the drama, the hardship, all of it is so deeply connected to the hilly, dry and beautiful countryside it

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I first read this book (in French)when I was eighteen. I am not sure if I understood it all since I am getting much more out of the reading now. The saga is perfect in its scope and subject.

You won't find any fancy stuff in a Marcel Pagnol story. He'll simply draw you into the place where he wants you taken, makes his characters alive before your very eyes, and then leads you to believe that like you he also does not know what will happen next or how the whole thing will end. When the tale finally did end here, there was an uncontrollable feeling of outrage. A great injustice has been done! And no one would doubt here that there'll be a much-awaited sequel.Marcel Pagnol was not



Wow, over a year to finish this one. I lost my first copy when I moved apartments and just recently acquired a replacement. So heartachingly good. Makes me want to move to Boulder, Utah to raise goats in the hills.