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Pan Trilogy
The Pan trilogy (french: Trilogie de Pan) consists of three novels by the French writer Jean Giono, published in 1929–1930. The stand-alone stories are set in Provence and revolve the struggles of the peasant population. Two of the novels were made into films in the 1930s by Marcel Pagnol. Background The god Pan (god), Pan first occurred in Jean Giono's works in the 1924 poetry collection ''Accompagné de la flûte''. He is then mentioned in Giono's private correspondence, appears in his first written novel ''Naissance de l'Odyssée'', and was the subject of an unpublished magazine article in the 1920s. Further, Giono referred to Walt Whitman, an author he admired, as the "American Pan". Giono wrote the Pan trilogy while working as a bank clerk in his native Manosque, northern Provence. The stories were inspired by the author's reading of ancient Greek and Roman literature. Stories The Pan trilogy consists of the three novels ''Colline'' (1929), ''Lovers Are Never Losers'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionysus
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; grc, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity, and theatre. The Romans called him Bacchus ( or ; grc, Βάκχος ) for a frenzy he is said to induce called ''bakkheia''. As Dionysus Eleutherios ("the liberator"), his wine, music, and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His ''thyrsus'', a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. In Orphic religion, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel Series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were to include the ''Routledge's Railway Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Trilogies
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Jean Giono
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan In Popular Culture
Pan, the Greek deity, is often portrayed in cinema, literature, music, and stage productions, as a symbolic or cultural reference. Film *'' Playful Pan'', Silly Symponies cartoon from 1930 *''Picnic on the Grass'' (1959) by Jean Renoir evokes Pan with a flute-playing goatherd. *In ''7 Faces of Dr. Lao'' (1964), Pan appears as one of the attractions in the circus. He seduces Angela Benedict, the librarian, with his enticing music and even takes the form of the man she secretly admires, Ed Cunningham, the newspaper editor. Pan is one of the seven characters in the film played by Tony Randall. *''Legend'' (1985) by Ridley Scott has Tim Curry playing Pan, as the character Darkness, after Scott saw him perform in Rocky Horror Picture Show. *''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) by Guillermo del Toro (Spanish title: ''El Laberinto del Fauno'') features a faun that is not Pan, but the design was based on Pan *'' His Majesty Minor'' (2007) by Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film featuring Pan as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born near Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan town located in the province of Turin, Italy. He was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues. His stage name originated from his marriage to Henriette Manse, the sister of his best friend and frequent cinematic collaborator Jean Manse. So attentive was he to his wife that his mother-in-law amusingly referred to him as ''Fernand d'elle'' ("Fernand of her"). Biography In 1930, Fernandel appeared in his first motion picture and for more than forty years he would be France's top comic actor. He was perhaps best loved for his portrayal of the irascible Italian village priest at war with the town's Communist mayor in the ''Don Camillo'' series of motion pictures. His horse-like teeth beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orane Demazis
Orane Demazis (4 September 1894 – 25 December 1991) was a French actress. Biography Born Henriette Marie Louise Burgart in Oran, French Algeria, in a family of Alsatian origin, Demazis entered the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in 1919. She formed her stage name after her birthplace of Oran and the name of Mazis, another nearby town. Upon graduating in 1922, she joined the Théâtre de l'Atelier cast directed by Charles Dullin. Between 1922 and 1926, she starred in ''Carmosine'' by Alfred de Musset, ''L'Occasion'' by Prosper Mérimée, ''Chacun sa vérité'' by Pirandello, ''Petite Lumière et l'Ourse'' and ''Huon de Bordeaux'' by Alexandre Arnoux, ''Voulez-vous jouer avec moâ'' by Marcel Achard. Her encounter with Marcel Pagnol in 1923 marked a turning point in her career, he created some of her most famous roles and in 1933 they had a son, Jean-Pierre Burgart. In 1926, he hired her to act in his play ''Jazz'' before creating for her the role of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvest (1937 Film)
''Harvest'' () is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Marguerite Moreno and Gabriel Gabrio. The narrative revolves around a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper again. The film is based on the 1930 novel '' Second Harvest'' by Jean Giono. It was released in France on 28 October 1937 and in the United States on 2 October 1939. Cast * Fernandel as Urbain Gédémus * Gabriel Gabrio as Panturle * Orane Demazis as Irène Charles, "Arsule" * Marguerite Moreno as Zia Mamèche, "la Mamèche" * Robert Le Vigan as the brigadier * Henri Poupon as Panturle's farmer friend * Odette Roger as Alphonsine * Milly Mathis as Belline Reception Frank Nugent of ''The New York Times'' described ''Harvest'' as "a film of utter serenity and great goodness, so reverently played and so compassionately directed that it is far le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angèle (film)
''Angèle'' is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol, based on the 1929 novel '' Un de Baumugnes'' by Jean Giono. It stars Orane Demazis. Plot A naive young woman, Angèle, leaves the farm where she has been raised after being seduced by a shrewd man who turns out to be a pimp. An honest handsome farm employee, Albin, tries to prevent her from going, but without success since she is mesmerized by Louis, the manipulating pimp. She becomes a street prostitute in Marseille and leads a sad life. To make things worse, she has a child. A kind friend of hers, the childish and apparently a little mentally under-developed Saturnin, finds her thanks to some unexpected information. He brings her back home to her kind mother but the woman's father, Clarius, is so ashamed of what happened that he locks her in a cellar and hides her. He threatens anybody who shows up with his rifle. Albin, still in love with Angèle, and hoping she will return one day, works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Solitude Of Compassion
''The Solitude of Compassion'' () is a 1932 short story collection by the French writer Jean Giono. The stories focus on rural life in Provence. The book was published in English in 2002, translated by Edward Ford. Stories # The Solitude of Compassion (Solitude de la pitié) # Prelude to Pan (Prélude de Pan) # Fields (Champs) # Ivan Ivanovitch Kossiakoff (Ivan Ivanovitch Kossiakoff) # The Hand (La main) # Annette or A Family Affair (Annette ou une affaire de famille) # On the Side of the Road (Au bord des routes) # Jofroi de Maussan (Jofroi de la Maussan) # Philmon (Philémon) # Joselet # Sylvie # Babeau # The Sheep (Le mouton) # In the Land of the Tree Cutters (Au pays des coupeurs d'arbres) # The Great Fence (La grande barrière) # The Destruction of Paris (Destruction de Paris) # Magnetism (Magnétisme) # Fear of the Land (Peur de la terre) # Lost Rafts (Radeaux perdus) # Song of the World (Le chant du monde) Reception ''Kirkus Reviews'' wrote in 2002: "Although most of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceres (mythology)
In ancient Roman religion, Ceres ( , ) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.Room, Adrian, ''Who's Who in Classical Mythology'', p. 89-90. NTC Publishing 1990. . She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad, then was paired with her daughter Proserpina in what Romans described as "the Greek rites of Ceres". Her seven-day April festival of Cerealia included the popular ''Ludi Ceriales'' (Ceres' games). She was also honoured in the May ''lustratio'' of the fields at the Ambarvalia festival, at harvest-time, and during Roman marriages and funeral rites. She is usually depicted as a mature woman. Ceres is the only one of Rome's many agricultural deities to be listed among the Dii Consentes, Rome's equivalent to the Twelve Olympians of Greek mythology. The Romans saw her as the counterpart of the Greek goddess Demeter,''Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia'', The Book People, Haydock, 1995, p. 215. whos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
