Glory Be To Jean Giono
Gean Jiono's entire ouvre is indescribably poignant, facnciful yet of the deepest reality...I personally don't feel it important enough to stress that this author is much neglected and generally unknown to the reading public at large - and that is a crime! For to read Giono is to have a great poet and you, the reader, touch one another on a level most of us cannot even believe in any more in this consumerist/pleasure seeking world which is, in Shakespearean terms but a lot of noise and frenzied activity signifying nothing...To read 'Two Riders On The Storm' is to come face to face with our own most repressed and denied unconsciousness..'No, I am not like the older brother', we'd like to believe...'And the younger is too 'angelic' to be a 'real' human being'...Giono forces us to face our own hidden, scorned and pooh-poohed deepest nature which is multifarious and polarized - when we read him he reminds us of Goethe's famous sentence: 'There is no crime I feel incapable of committing'...and to add: There is no tenderness and pity and generosity I am incapable of offering my fellow man and all life!