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Jean Giono : mythical ways to the discovery of « self »

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The aim of this study was to follow the path to recovery myth in the novelistic work of Jean Giono. For Giono, the ancient world remains a permanent and inalienable human condition. Resume is often a myth of his hero to remake another ego, a similar one or the opposite one. The mythical world of Giono, as represented in his works, is of course the psychological imagination and the desire to find a path that led to the self discovery. Being self or being an Other, this is the fundamental question in the contemporary literature. This problem takes a full extent in the post-war writers. During his real existence, Giono invented the myth of the author through the "portrait of the artist himself". Becoming Ulysses or Noah, Giono is finally the most authentically when being himself, starting with the self-portraits including Pour saluer Melville, then followed by the youth autobiography in Jean le Bleu.