The Life Of A Simple Man

WONDERFUL TRANSLATION BY MARGARET HOLDEN of this classic raw and honest depiction of rural French life! A deeply touching story! Emile Guillaumin, under the guise of fiction, wrote this story of "Tiennon," a French peasant. A peasant himself, Guillaumin was unique in that, after a few years of schooling, he continued to work his small farm in central France to the end of his life, reserving nights for study and writing. Guillaumin felt that the French peasant had been misrepresented in contemporary literature - either romanticized as in George Sand or depicted as a dumb victim of the forces of nature as in Zola - and wanted to correct the picture. The result is this moving first-person story that can be read as a very interesting and entertaining fictionalized but true-to-life account, as well as the best kind of material for historians seeking to understand how nineteenth-century French peasants really lived. 9781774644997 1774644991 0 BOOK http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e7KRzwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e7KRzwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api en 9781774644997

Author: Emile Guillaumin

Publisher: Must Have Books

Publication Date: Dec 19, 2022

Number of Pages: 290 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1774644991

ISBN-13: 9781774644997