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Article: Jean Giono. L'affare Dominici.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- October 1, 2003
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Jean Giono, L'affare Dominici. Ispano Roventi, tr. Palermo. Sellerio. 2002. 133 pages. 8 [euro]. ISBN 88-389-1767-1
IN L'AFFARE DOMINICI, Ispano Roventi--a Provencal intellectual and journalist who had been imprisoned in postwar France for collaborating with the Germans--has achieved a masterly translation. Roventi re-creates in Italian for the first time in fifty years the atmosphere and psychological intrigue of an old but still-remembered French judicial chronicle narrated in 1955 by the newspaper correspondent Jean Giono (1895-1970).
On August 5, 1952, a family of English campers--Sir Jack Drummond, his wife, Lady Ann, and their ten-year-old ...
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