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03501aam a2200481 i 4500 001 58D11D70DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 201019t20212021nyua 000 1 eng 010 $a 2020047546 020 $a 1681375109 020 $a 9781681375106 035 $a (OCoLC)1192490680 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d SINLB $d SO$ $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NYP $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a PQ2613.I57 $b G813 2021 082 00 $a 843/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Giono, Jean, $d 1895-1970, $e author. 240 10 $a Grands chemins. $l English 245 14 $a The open road / $c Jean Giono ; translated from the French by Paul Eprile ; introduction by Jacques Le Gall. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b New York Review of Books, $c [2021] 300 $a xviii, 212 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review Books classics 520 $a "South of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He picks up casual work along the way, and spends the winter as the custodian of a walnut oil mill. He also picks up a problematic companion: a card sharp and con man, whom he calls "the Artist." The action moves from place to place, and episode to episode, in truly picaresque fashion. Everything is told in the first person, present tense, by the vagabond Narrator, who goes unnamed. He himself is a curious combination of qualities-poetic, resentful, cynical, compassionate, flirtatious, and self-absorbed. While The Open Road can be read as loosely strung entertainment, interspersed with caustic reflections, it can also be interpreted as a projection of the relationship between author, art, and audience. But it is ultimately an exploration of the tensions and boundaries between affection and commitment, and of the competing needs for solitude, independence, and human bonds. As always in Giono, the language is rich in natural imagery. Colourful idiomatic expressions-many of them unfamiliar even in France today-pepper every page. "Eh, mister, a novel is a mirror, out strolling along the open road. Sometimes it reflects the azure of the heavens, sometimes the muck of the potholes." Whether Giono took his title and inspiration from this passage in Stendhal's Scarlet and Black, or from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road," both these sources course powerfully along The Open Road."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Nomads $z France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Autonomy (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Autonomy (Psychology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00824168 650 7 $a Nomads. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01038439 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726640 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Documents d'information. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001043 776 08 $i Online version: $a Giono, Jean, 1895-1970. $t Open road $d [New York] : New York Review Books, [2021] $z 9781681375113 $w (DLC) 2020047547 700 1 $a Eprile, Paul, $e translator. 700 1 $a Le Gall, Jacques, $d 1949- $e writer of introduction. 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024159.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=58D11D70DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search