2009年6月28日日曜日

The Man Who Planted Trees




Met a few old friends for tea at Cafe La Boheme Omotesando(www.global-dining.com) french cafe after attending a 13th Public Research Meeting of the MELL Platz.

Yuki, Nozomi,Henri and Michael are fine. Michael organized a social networking party up to 100 people at Art Polygon.Both Henri and me dont like alcohol drink,Henri didnt join Michael's event.I turned up for only a little while. We chatted at cafe La Boheme.Never seen each other for a year. Henri seem gradually got used to his life in Tokyo.Nozomi brought a very cute girl, Yuki, haiz,still talkative as usual. Our conversation mentioned about france culture and novel, Yuki brought up some essays that I never heard of, only remember Jean Giono.He wrote The Man Who Planted Trees

Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author renowned for his works of fiction set in the Provence region of France.

He was born and lived for many years in Manosque, Haute Provence. After finishing his studies at the local high school, he worked as a bank employee until World War I, during which he served as a soldier. In 1919, he returned to the bank and a year later, married a childhood friend with whom he had two children. He left the bank in 1930 to dedicate himself to writing on a full-time basis, after the success of his first novel, Colline.

In 1953, he was the recipient of the Prince Rainier of Monaco literary prize, awarded for his lifetime achievements. He later became a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1954 and joined the Conseil Littéraire of Monaco in 1963.

Among his most famous writings are the three novels of his "Pan Trilogy", which allude to the Greek God Pan and pantheism: Colline, Un de Baumugnes, and Regain. He is also well known for the book Voyage in Italy and the short story The Man Who Planted Trees (1953).

The Man Who Planted Trees has a particular resonance in the early 21st century, with its strong ecological, human-scale sustainability message.

2009年6月24日水曜日

『悲しみよこんにちは」Bonjour Tristesse

Sagan's life was dramatized in a biographic film, Sagan directed by Diane Kurys, released in Shibuya, Bunkamura on June 2009.

フランソワーズ・サガン(Françoise Sagan, 1935年6月21日 - 2004年9月24日)(本名フランソワーズ・コワレ, Françoise Quoirez)は、フランスの小説家、脚本家および映画台本作家の伝記が去年6月にフランスで映画化されて、最近渋谷ぶんかむらで上映した。

Here are some of her quotes:

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

  * 『わたしが大嫌いなものはお金で買うことのできるものではなく、お金によって作られる人間関係やお金が大部分のフランス人に課している生活態度なのです』

* 『わたしは人の持つ安心感や人を落ち着かせるものが大嫌いです。精神的にも肉体的にでも、過剰なものがあると休まるのです』

* 『わたしは孤独が好きです、でも他人には愛を感じていますし、好きな人にはとても興味を持っています。ですから、人生の小さなドラマに対して、自分を嘲弄して、ユーモアをたっぷり持つことが必要だと思うのです。それでユーモアを持つための第一段階は自分自身を嘲笑うことだと思います』

 Her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse ("Hello, Sadness"), was published in 1954,when she was 18 years old, and it was an immediate international success. It concerns the life of pleasure-driven 17-year-old Cécile, in particular her relationship with her boyfriend and her adulterous, playboy father.

2009年6月19日金曜日

Listen to Silent

Unchained Melody


ZAMFIR - THE LONELY SHEPHERD ( Einsamer Hirte ) - JAMES LAST ORCHESTRA

2009年6月1日月曜日

秋桜  




福山雅治