Name: Melville: A Novel (New York Review Books Classics)
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Author: Jean Giono
ISBN: 9781681371375

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Melville: A Novel (New York Review Books Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jean Giono

Publisher

Nyrb Classics

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781681371375

Synopsis "Melville: A Novel (New York Review Books Classics) "

In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essai, Melville: A Novel—part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle.Paul Eprile was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize for his translation of Melville.

Jean Giono

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Jean Giono (Manosque, 1895–1970) was a prominent French writer whose work is characterized by a deep love for nature and a focus on the rural life of Provence. A self-taught and convinced pacifist after his experience in World War I, Giono developed a lyrical and humanist narrative that made him a central figure in 20th century French literature

Among his most recognized works are Hill (1929), Return to Love (1930), A King Without Diversion (1947), The Horseman on the Roof (1951), and The Man Who Planted Trees (1953). His novel Hill received the Brentano Award in 1929, and Return to Love won the Northcliffe Prize in 1930. In 1954, he was elected a member of the Goncourt Academy, and in 1953 he received the Prince Pierre of Monaco Literary Prize for his entire body of work

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