Notes sur l'affaire Dominici / Essai sur le caractère des personnages

by Jean Giono

En 1952, une famille d'Anglais est retrouvée assassinée à quelques kilomètres du petit village de Lurs dans les Alpes. Gaston Dominici est rapidement arrêté, jugé et déclaré coupable au cours d'un procès retentissant. L'écrivain Jean Giono se passionne pour ce terrible fait divers et assiste à toutes les audiences.

Dans ce témoignage pris sur le vif d'une justice qui tâtonne, Giono soulève des questions auxquelles personne, à ce jour, n'a encore répondu...

128 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2017

About the author

Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France's greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, film scripts, translations and over thirty novels, many of which have been translated into English.

Giono was a pacifist, and was twice imprisoned in France at the outset and conclusion of World War II.

He remained tied to Provence and Manosque, the little city where he was born in 1895 and, in 1970, died.

Giono was awarded the Prix Bretano, the Prix de Monaco (for the most outstanding collected work by a French writer), the Légion d'Honneur, and he was a member of the Académie Goncourt.