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Try To Discuss Jean Giono And His The Pan's Trilogy

Posted on:2008-11-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360218957823Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In the 20th century, Jean Giono(1895-1970)is a renowned novelist who enjoy a good reputation in the French literature by the local writer's status. His work is rich, involves the poetry, the prose, the play, the screenplay and the novel and so on. From the 20's to the 60's, Jean Giono has created the massive novels. His creation in inherited in the classical literature tradition foundation to have the innovation and the development, specially receives influence comes from thought of the return nature of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Stendhal's the technique of reappears the historical event. Thus his novels have attracted massive readers by the unique charm. Among of all novels, his representative works are The Colline, The Un de Baumugnes, The Regain, it is called as the Pan's trilogy. In the Greek mytholog, Pan is a god of the land and the forest, and protection god of the hunter, the herd, the catching fish. In three novels, writer by the brand-new description of vision, the sense of hearing and the sense of touch, eulogize the Pan god spirit, outlines many custom picture scrolls that have the rich breath of life and the features of region.At the beginning of 1980s, the domestic scholars begain to studies, translates and introducts Jean Giono and his works. Because starts lately, the understanding for Jean Giono, the domestic reader mainly comes from to reorganization movies of according to his novel.Therefore it also needs developly research further to Jean Giono, especially must thoroughly to discuss the enrich connotation and the artistic feature which in the Pan trilogy contains. Political context, literature environment, home environment, not only affected and raised Jean Giono creative idea, also caused him to form disposition that has been intimate with the nature. Therefore his the Pan's trilogy fused many creative angles of view to go deep into contemplating the village life of his hometown Provence, ponder and explore life value and significance, express progressive thought which the person and the nature in together harmoniously. Under such background, the writer builds own unique myth world in the novel, causes which the ancient image, the subject and the characterprototype glows new vigor. Although he also has the trace of naturalism in the natural scenerydescription, but in artistic he has some originalities and advance consciousness in thought, without doubt for us it is worth studying and may profit from it.In domestic, it is the first time to research systematically to Jean Giono's the Pan's trilogy from creative angle of view, and the myth prototype.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jean Giono, the Pan's trilogy, creative angle of view, myth prototype
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