The Open Road by Jean Giono

Author:Jean Giono
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2021-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

TRANSLATOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MANY FRIENDS have given me help and encouragement along this road.

Isabelle Génin, maître de conferences at the Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3, provided detailed commentary on my drafts, corrected numerous errors, and sharpened my interpretation of the myriad “expressions et locutions” that pepper these pages. Jacques Le Gall, a consummate Giono scholar, offered essential insights into obscure passages and penned a lucid introduction.

I’m deeply indebted to Edwin Frank, my editor at NYRB, for his acumen, commitment, and moral support.

Jacques Mény, the president of Les Amis de Jean Giono, continues to endorse my efforts. Grégoire Lacaze, linguist at l’Université Aix-Marseille, has taken a lively, scholarly interest in various aspects of my work.

The following listing doesn’t render sufficient gratitude to my readers, but to each of you I extend heartfelt thanks: Roo Borson, Wendell Block, David Friend, Peter Sakuls, Simon Swale, Tim Brook, Joyce Zonana, Colin Mooers, Kate and Chris Harries, Nick Thompson.

Claude Boutterin has contributed a fine drawing.

Debbie Honickman has shared in every stage of this labor of love, reading my drafts aloud and helping me smooth and clarify the prose. In 2019, during a sojourn in Haute-Provence subsidized by the French government’s Centre national du livre, we made an exploratory, revelatory trip to the regions—the Trièves and the Diois—where the action of the novel takes place.

For her warmth and inspiration, and in particular for a conversation during a drive from Banon to Manosque along roads that read like pages from her father’s books, I dedicate this translation to Sylvie Durbet-Giono.

—P.E.

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