BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Redfern, W. D. “Bibliography.” In The Private World of Jean Giono, pp. 197-203. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1967.

List of Giono's major works, arranged by type, as well as selected criticism and genre works appropriate to the study of Giono.

Smith, Maxwell A. “Selected Bibliography.” In Jean Giono, pp. 183-87. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1968.

Selected list of important primary and secondary works by and about Giono.

BIOGRAPHY

“Jean Giono.” In World Authors, 1900-1950, Vol. 2, pp. 983-84. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1996.

Brief biographical-critical sketch of the author.

CRITICISM

Butler, Evelyn. “Jean Giono's Provence: Marcel Pagnol's Comic Vision.” Recovering Literature: A Journal of Contextualist Criticism 18 (spring 1992): 39-42.

Discusses similarities and differences between Giono's stories and Pagnol's film adaptations of them.

Clarke, Katherine A. “An Interview with Jean Giono.” French Review 33 (October 1959): 3-10.

Transcript of a taped interview with Giono which reveals his attitude toward his own work.

———. “Pour Saluer Melville: Jean Giono's Prison Book.” French Review 35 (April 1962): 478-83.

Discussion of Giono's fictional biography of Herman Melville and Melville's influence on Giono.

Corcoran, Patrick. “Cheating at Cards and Cheating with Words: Order and Randomness in Giono's Les Grands Chemins.” Synthesis 1 (spring 1995): 59-71.

An application of chaos theory to one novel by Giono.

Gilman, Wayne C., Jr. “The General Neologisms of Jean Giono.” French Review 33 (April 1960): 469-75.

Scholarly discussion of aspects of Giono's style.

Shorley, Christopher. “The War Between the Wars in the French Novel.” French Cultural Studies 8 (June 1997): 241-56.

An examination of the ways French narrative fiction, including that of Giono, in the period before and after World War I, mediated ideas about the war.

Walker, Hallam. “Myth in Giono's Le Chant du monde.” Symposium 15 (summer 1961): 139-46.

Study of Giono as an epic novelist and his skill at creating myth.

Additional coverage of Giono's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 45-48, 29-32R; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 2, 35; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 4, 11; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 72; Guide to French Literature, 1789 to the Present; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 2.