Jean GIO&O or Divine &ature

Jean Giono’s works before the Second World War (especially his first three novels) are full of violence and cruelty. There are, however, differences among novels in terms of quantity and quality of violence in his novels. The mythical beliefs of the writer bring things into his stories similar to human elements. The human being and natural elements come into competition with each other and even sometimes take revenge. The present paper aims at investigating violence and its religious features. We firstly emonstrate the interdependence, interaction and catastrophic confusion between "sacred" and "non-sacred" forces. Then we consider the moderate approach of the primitive community to tackle the problem and to survive through sacrifice.