What parts of Noé are reality and what parts invention? Jean Giono asserts that “the invented world” is superposed on the “real world” and that what is true is what is imagined. The novelist is therefore someone who knows how to lie sincerely. The work of Étienne Souriau allows us to insert Giono’s creation into reality, a reality that accepts “different modes of existence.” Giono distinguished between the wheat field of the farmer, the painter, the walker, and the economist: to each his or her reality.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques