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

2013

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…