The Song of the World

by Jean Giono

Book Overview

In France's Provence region, two men embark on a journey to discover the meaning of life. The novel re-presents man's relationship to nature as the two men experience the wonders of the world. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865470383
• ISBN13: 9780865470385
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Unsung Classic of Great Power

This may be the most curious and powerful book you have never heard about. Operates at a strange subconscious level in a most primitive way. Deserves to be counted among the great classics of the 20th Century.

pure magic

This book, and Giono's Joy of Man's Desiring, are the two of the most beautiful, wise, transformative works of fiction that I know -- even in translation. The translations are excellent, but Giono's writing, and his vision, are among the wisest and most eloquent in any language -- it is these books that gave me the impetus to be a writer. If you care for nature, and the prospect of humankind living in genuine participation and reciprocity with earthly nature, these are your books. An essential tonic for our collective ecological insanity...