Blue Boy (novel)
Author | Jean Giono |
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Original title | Jean le Bleu |
Translator | Katherine A. Clarke |
Language | French |
Publisher | Éditions Grasset |
Publication date | 1932 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1946 |
Pages | 316 |
1932 novel by French writer Jean Giono
Blue Boy (French: Jean le Bleu) is a 1932 novel by French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes. An English translation by Katherine A. Clarke was published in 1946.[1]
Adaptations
The novel was the basis for Marcel Pagnol's 1938 film The Baker's Wife. The film stars Raimu, Ginette Leclerc and Charles Blavette.[2] Pagnol's film was in turn adapted into the American musical The Baker's Wife, which premiered in 1976.[3] It was also the basis for the 2010 television film La Femme du boulanger, directed by Dominique Thiel.[4]
References
- ^ Blue Boy. OCLC 254707. Retrieved 2015-05-22 – via WorldCat.
- ^ "La Femme du boulanger". bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
- ^ Sullivan, Dan (1976-05-13). "The Baker's Wife' at the Pavilion". Los Angeles Times (via pqarchiver.com). Retrieved 2015-05-22.
- ^ "La femme du boulanger (TV)". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2015-05-22.
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Bibliography
- Colline (1929)
- Lovers Are Never Losers (1929)
- Second Harvest (1930)
- Blue Boy (1932)
- The Song of the World (1934)
- Joy of Man's Desiring (1936)
- A King Alone (1947)
- Les Âmes fortes (1949)
- The Horseman on the Roof (1951)
- The Open Road (1951)
- The Malediction (1952)
- The Straw Man (1957)
- Two Riders of the Storm (1965)
- The Solitude of Compassion (1932)
- "The Man Who Planted Trees" (1953)
- Les Vraies Richesses (1937 book)
- Croesus (1960 film)