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BLUE BOY-Jean Giono; translated by Katherine A. Clarke-Viking...
...Comité des Ecrivains (authors' association) publicly denounced: Paul Morand, ex-Vichy Ambassador to Bucharest; pro-German Novelists Jean Giono, Louis Ferdinand Céline (Louis Destouches), Journalists Henry de Montherlant, Jacques Chardonne...
...second French movie to be shown at the Institute of Geographical Exploration will be the highly-praised pastoral "Harvest." It is titled "Regain" in French and is written by Jean Giono. Tickets may be obtained by displaying bursar's cards at Robinson Hall. Showings will be given on Thursday and Friday afternoons and evenings at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock. The film was originally banned by New York censors, but was later allowed to be shown...
Prose Poem. Jean Giono was arrested last September (TIME, Oct. 23), to prevent his leading a band of his French peasant neighbors in a flat refusal to go to war. (He was released in November.) Last fall the innocent movie version of his innocent novel Harvest was shown at a few U. S. theatres. Joy of Man's Desiring, published in France in 1935, though in form a novel, is about as intense and unabashed a poem as any prose could...
...useless beauty, in the purity of animals. Carried away by his precept and example, the farmers reduce their planting to what they can eat, turn their animals loose, crowd their fallow land with narcissi, make friends with a stag and his doe. Having set up his earthly paradise, Giono regretfully proceeds in his closing chapters to knock it to pieces. He does so none too logically. Jean Giono has a genius for observing, and recording, the splendors of the natural world, the beauty of natural tasks and pleasures. The book has been given an excellent translation...