Pan trilogy

The god Pan first occurred in Jean Giono's works in the 1924 poetry collection Accompagné de la flûte.

He is then mentioned in Giono's private correspondence, appears in his first written novel Naissance de l'Odyssée, and was the subject of an unpublished magazine article in the 1920s.

[1] Giono wrote the Pan trilogy while working as a bank clerk in his native Manosque, northern Provence.

[3] The stories associate the landscape and population of the region with classical mythology, subtly evoking the gods Pan, Ceres and Dionysus.

[4] Giono designated the three novels as a trilogy in his 1931 text Présentation de Pan, in which he outlines his thinking and aesthetic vision.