Two Riders of the Storm (Peter Owen Modern Classic) - Softcover

Giono, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0720611598 ISBN 13: 9780720611595

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

Two brothers, Marceau and Ange Jason, are members of a family renowned and respected for its brutality and are therefore bound together with ties stronger than those of ordinary brotherly love. This affection soon turns to hatred after Marceau kills a wild horse with a single blow at a country fair, becoming the local wrestling champion. As his strength increases and his fame spreads, the younger sibling's jealousy causes this bond to snap. The end, when it comes, is a violent—and deadly—confrontation. Two Riders of the Storm is a story of a Cain-and-Abel-like struggle for supremacy in its most primitive form described with an intense and stark poetic beauty that transforms the brutal imagery into elemental forces of life death.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Giono wrote more than 30 novels as well as many volumes of short stories, plays, poetry, essays, and film scripts. Imprisoned at the beginning of World War II for his pacifist views, he was wrongly imprisoned again for collaboration at the war’s end. The author of the play The Horseman on the Roof and the much-acclaimed The Man Who Planted Trees, he is now firmly established as among the most distinguished of French writers.

Review:

'Giono gives us a world he lives in, a world of dream, passion and reality.' - Henry Miller 'Violent but beautiful... In the erotic wrestling matches and in Marceau's death on the frozen mountain, Jean Giono recalls D.H. Lawrence, and the explosive gusto of his language marks him as a novelist of great originality.' - SPECTATOR 'It has a timeless fairytale quality... The writing is zestful and broadly humorous, the philosophy that of a French D.H. Lawrence.' - SUNDAY TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0720611598
• ISBN 13: 9780720611595
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200