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The Serpent of Stars Tapa blanda - 2004

Name: The Serpent of Stars
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Author: Giono, Jean
ISBN: 9780972869287

de Jean Giono; Jody Gladding (Translator)

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Jean Giono was born in Manosque in 1895 and spent most of his life in that part of Provence, which is also the setting for his immense body of work, over fifty novels, as well as poems, essays and plays. During World War II, he turned to political writing and was jailed for pacifist activities. He is best known in North America for his autobiographical Blue Boy, The Horseman on the Roof, and The Man Who Planted Trees. This is The first English translation of The Serpent of Stars.

Jody Gladding is poet and a translator. Her most recent collection of poetry is Rooms and Their Airs. She has translated over twenty books from French, including Small Lives and The Eleven by Pierre Michon. She teaches in The MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Vermont.

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Título The Serpent of Stars
Autor Jean Giono; Jody Gladding (Translator)
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición 1st US
Páginas 117
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Archipelago Books, New York
Fecha de publicación 2004-04-23
ISBN 9780972869287 / 097286928X
Peso 0.39 libras (0.18 kg)
Dimensiones 6.98 x 6.02 x 0.36 pulgadas (17.73 x 15.29 x 0.91 cm)
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2003023998
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Extracto

Open yourself! Here you are crossed by the suns and the clouds; here you are traveled by wind. Listen to the beautiful wind that dances over your blood as over mountain lakes; listen to the way it makes the beautiful sound of its depths ring out! Here you are bristling with sun, free to walk in the thorns, and the thorns break under your heel, and your head is buzzing like a nest of wasps. Here you are all light with clouds, and you leap into the sky, and you leap through the beautiful waves of the sky like an eagle.

Reseñas en medios

Giono has created his own private terrestrial domain, a mythical domain…It is a region over which the stars and planets course with throbbing pulsations. It is a land in which things happen to men as aeons ago they happened to the gods. Pan still walks the earth. The soil is saturated with cosmic juices. Events transpire. Miracles occur. —Henry Miller

[Giono's] phrases behave like the wild grasses and the beasts he speaks about. They are sap breathing and moving across the page...Jody Gladding translates as a poet...and that is the only way to translate Giono. —Cecilia Vicuïa

What good luck to have this portion of Paradise, with its shepherds and music, rivers and mountains, magic and mystery, lovingly translated into English. —Christopher Merrill

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Jody Gladding is poet and a translator. Her most recent collection of poetry is Rooms and Their Airs. She has translated over twenty books from French, including Small Lives and The Eleven by Pierre Michon. She teaches in The MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Vermont.

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