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Author: Marcel Pagnol
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780330307796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of Jean de Florette, a 35-year-old, city-bred, hunchbacked idealist, his wife, Aimee, and his daughter, Manon. In the second novel, Manon seeks revenge for her father's death, and it is she who brings the wheel full circle in a final dramatic retribution in the town square.
Author: Marcel Pagnol
Publisher: Prion (GB)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781853755293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPagnol's tragedy explores themes of sacrifice, selfishness and revenge in a Provencal village.
Author: Marcel Pagnol
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phil Powrie
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781904764465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French films of all time, The Cinema of France contains 24 essays, each on an individual film. The book features works from the silent period and poetic realism, through the stylistic developments of the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Luc Besson. Set in chronological order, The Cinema of France provides an illuminating history of this essential national cinema and includes in-depth studies of films such as Un Chien Andalou (1929), Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Le Samouraï (1967), Shoah (1985), Jean de Florette (1986), Les Visiteurs (1993) and La Haine (1995).
Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-05-19
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0307755495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.
Author: Jean De La Ville De Mirmont
Publisher:
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781939663405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean de La Ville de Mirmont left behind one undisputed classic, self-published a few months before he would meet his fate on the front lines of World War I: an understated, almost humorous tale of urban solitude and alienation that outlines the mediocrity of bureaucratic existence. Jean Dézert is an office worker employed by the ministry, who rounds out his regimented life with snippets of Eastern philosophy, strolls through the city and consumerist efforts at injecting content into his life by structuring his Sundays through a rigorous use of advertising flyers that take him from saunas to vegetarian restaurants to lectures on sexual hygiene. In his mortal boredom, his modernist engagement with the banality of the everyday and his almost heroic resignation to mediocrity, Jean Dézert emerges as something of a French counterpart to Herman Melville's own rebel bureaucrat, Bartleby the Scrivener--save that when it comes to being an existential rebel, Jean Dézert goes even further in his will to prefer not to. "Jean Dézert is like a brother to me," wrote Michel Houellebecq, "because of his ability to escape despair by means of emptiness." Jean de La Ville de Mirmont(1886-1914) was killed by a shell explosion on the World War I battlefront. He left behind a collection of poetry that would be published posthumously, a collection of short stories and the novella for which he is remembered, The Sundays of Jean Dézert.
Author: Guy Austin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1996-11-15
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780719046117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines popular French film of the last 25 years. Charts recent developments in all genres since the New Wave, including the heritage film, the thriller, the war film, `cinema du look'. Other topics include: representations of sexuality; the work of women film-makers. Includes a filmography.
Author: Marcel Pagnol
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1991-09-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780330321907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith warmth, lucidity and good humour, Pagnol, a boy from the city, recounts the glorious summer days he spent exploring the sun-baked Provençal countryside. He vividly captures the atmosphere of a childhood filled with the simple pleasures: a meal, a joke, an outing shared with his close-knit and loving family. These heart-warming stories remind us of how children can invest the smallest event or statement with incredible significance, how mysterious the workings of the adult world can seem to them and how painful the learning process can often prove. However, Pagnol’s writing is filled with enormous optimism and delight. And his triumph in these classic memoirs is to have created that rare thing, a work suffused with joy. ‘Pagnol’s place in the history of French culture is secure. The Prousts and Sartres may be admired, but Pagnol is loved’ Times Literary Supplement
Author: Phil Powrie
Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780340760031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of French cinema has greatly expanded in recent years, as it is increasingly taught alongside literature in modern language departments. This book, written by two leading scholars of French film, offers students an introduction to the history and theory of French cinema.
Author: Marcel Pagnol
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 232
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