by Marcel Pagnol · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426571939
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«Agua de las colinas: Jean de Florette» is the novel by Marcel Pagnol, published by Magisterio Español S.A. in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
Jean de Florette, a city man, settles with his family in a Provençal village to work the land; an ambitious neighbor manipulates access to water and endangers his farm. Pagnol portrays rural life, envy and the clash between the newcomer and the locals in rural twentieth-century France.
The work belongs to the collection Novelas y cuentos, number 191, Literature section, French Literature series. Translation from French and introduction by Mercedes Villar Ponz.
For readers of classic fiction and rural stories with neighborly tensions and Provençal landscapes.
Marcel Paul Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his mastery of multiple literary genres —memoir, novel, theatre and film.
