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Melville: a Novel by Jean Giono (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Melville: A Novel (New York Review Books Classics) by Giono, Jean [Paperback]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101681371375

ISBN-139781681371375

eBay Product ID (ePID)234272404

Product Key Features

Book TitleMelville: a Novel

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicPsychological, General, Literary, Biographical

GenreFiction

AuthorJean Giono

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight5.4 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-008613

Dewey Edition23

Reviews" Melville ...is a powerful testament to the magic of words." --Edmund White, The New York Review of Books "After reading Pour saluer Melville , which is a poet's interpretation of a poet--'a pure invention,' as Giono said in a letter--I was literally beside myself. How often is it the foreigner who teaches us to appreciate our own authors!" --Henry Miller

Dewey Decimal813.3

SynopsisOriginally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick , Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. 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 Proven al 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 essay, 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 ., Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick , Jean Giono's Melville- A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. 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 Proven al 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 essay, 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 .

LC Classification NumberPQ2613.I57P6513 2017