Jean Giono and the reinvention of the Odyssey in the French postwar literature

Authors

  • Lorena Lopes da Costa UFOPA (Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v67i2.56348

Keywords:

The Great War, France, Jean Giono, Odyssey

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the relation between war, experience and fiction, through Naissance de l'Odyssée, a French rewriting of the Odyssey. Jean Giono (1895 - 1970), in return from The Great War, chooses epic poetry as a support to elaborate the challenges of the conflit and to put the tradition into question. The sources are Giono's literature, in particular Naissance de l'Odyssée, novel published in 1930, as well as his war writings and correspondence.

Author Biography

Lorena Lopes da Costa, UFOPA (Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará)

Professora de Teoria da História na UFOPA. Doutora em História pela UFMG, sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Dabdab Trabulsi.

Published

2019-07-31

How to Cite

Lopes da Costa, L. (2019). Jean Giono and the reinvention of the Odyssey in the French postwar literature. História: Questões E Debates, 67(2), 199–225. https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v67i2.56348