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Jean Giono: From Pacifism to Collaboration

Of the many writers accused of supporting the Vichy regime and of collaborating with the Nazis during the Occupation, one of the most controversial and disturbing cases remains that of Jean Giono. A visionary writer whose originality and epic power as a novelist have long since established him as a "classic" of twentieth-century French literature, Giono is widely read inside and outside France. His work continues to generate a great deal of interest among academic critics on both sides of the Atlantic. For some at least, his denunciations of urban modernity and his celebrations of the virtues of a simple...