Blue Boy (novel)

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Blue Boy
Author Jean Giono
Original titleJean le Bleu
TranslatorKatherine A. Clarke
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Publisher Éditions Grasset
Publication date
1932
Published in English
1946
Pages316

Blue Boy (French : Jean le Bleu) is a 1932 novel by French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes. An English translation by Katherine A. Clarke was published in 1946. [1]

Adaptations

The novel was the basis for Marcel Pagnol's 1938 film The Baker's Wife . The film stars Raimu, Ginette Leclerc and Charles Blavette. [2] Pagnol's film was in turn adapted into the American musical The Baker's Wife , which premiered in 1976. [3] It was also the basis for the 2010 television film La Femme du boulanger, directed by Dominique Thiel. [4]

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References

  1. Blue Boy. OCLC   254707 . Retrieved 2015-05-22 via WorldCat.
  2. "La Femme du boulanger". bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  3. Sullivan, Dan (1976-05-13). "The Baker's Wife' at the Pavilion". Los Angeles Times (via pqarchiver.com). Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  4. "La femme du boulanger (TV)". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2015-05-22.