Regain - Jean Giono - Lithographs by André Minaux - 1965 Club Du Livre 1/300

Jean Giono , one of our greatest storytellers, exalts in Regain ,

with sensual lyricism, the deep ties that bind peasants to nature.

Like Ulysses, Giono is cunning, a colossal liar, a barely disguised tragic figure.

A motionless traveler anchored in Manosque, a past master in the art of fiction,

he will make the novel his kingdom.

An implacable observer of the human condition, Giono imposes himself

as the cantor of utopia and of the communion that binds man to nature.

Regain , it mainly refers to this grass that grows back after the harvest.

So there is this notion of renewal. Man regains ground on nature

fallow and dominates its barbarism alongside a woman.

"A novel that we would need to reread, which gives food for thought and breaks the tradition

self-centered novels. Through this reading, the midday sun returns to us"

Regain tells the story of the death and resurrection of a village in Haute-Provence: Aubignane.

It is also the story of a love and the resources of courage and energy that a man

in him without knowing it: because he loves, a being awakens, asserts himself and transforms everything around him.

"That there is a certain parallelism between the conceptions of Minaux and Buffet,

it's obvious, but only their perfect assimilation of a "closed universe" à la Franz Kafka

or à la Eugène Dabit manages to hoist them to the forefront of modern painting.

An infinite, somewhat weary sadness emanates from their compositions. Both exalt

an immense hope, a deep love of life which does not dare to express itself"

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State

Very nice work with slight wear from use

• slight friction on the edge of the casing
• a tear on the edge of the glued case

• slight friction on the back of the shirt

• Fresh Interior
• some creased snakes
• 2 horny snakes