The Song of the World by Jean Giono (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Song of the World by Jean Giono, a novel which examines nature and man’s place in it. The novel recounts the quest of Antonio and Sailor, two friends, to find Sailor’s missing son. It turns out that he has gone off with a girl from a nearby clan, which sets off a wave of events that will have life-changing consequences for all those involved. The Song of the World was released in 1934 and was heavily inspired by Walt Whitman’s poetry and the Iliad. Jean Giono was a French author whose writings are tinged with a profound sense of humanism. His experience in the army, and the accusations of collaboration with the Nazis that were later levelled against him, had a marked influence on his later works. As a result, many of his books concern war and nature. He died in 1970.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
• Release date: Aug 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9782808000802

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French writer

Born in Manosque in 1895.

Died in Manosque in 1970.

Notable works:

The Song of the World (1934), novel,

Les Âmes fortes (Strong Souls, 1950), novel

The Horseman on the Roof (1951), novel

Jean Giono was a French writer and director who was born in Manosque in 1895. He was called up for military service in 1914, and the scenes he witnessed in the war turned him into a staunch pacifist, to such an extent that he was imprisoned in 1939 for writing pacifist texts. He was then wrongly accused of collaboration with the Nazis in 1945, which led to a certain darkness in his later works. He died in 1970.

His works are characterised by a profound sense of humanism, the veneration of nature and rural life, and a focus on war, and put both man and nature in turn at the heart of their reflections. He is the author of Hills of Destiny (1929), To the Slaughterhouse (1931), The Song of the