by Marcel Pagnol · Editions de Fallois · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782877060547
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«Jean de Florette» is the novel by Marcel Pagnol published by Editions de Fallois in paperback format (316 pages, in French).
Jean Cadoret arrives from the city to rural Provence to turn an inherited estate into a farm. The neighbors hide a spring from him over old grudges. César Soubeyran and his nephew Ugolin hatch a plan to make him leave and sell them the land. It is a tale of greed, ambition and revenge, and of man's struggle against a hostile land.
First installment of the L'Eau des Collines series; the work was originally published in 1962 and this edition is from 1988.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century French classics who seek rural stories with memorable characters.
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.
