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{{Short description|Novel by Marcel Aymé}}
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| name = The Green Mare
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| publisher = [[Gallimard]]
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| pub_date = 1933
| english_pub_date = 1938, 1955
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| pages = 340 (French ed.)
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'''''The Green Mare''''' ({{Langx|fr|'''La Jument Verte'''}}) is a humorous [[novel]] by [[French language|French]] writer [[Marcel Aymé]] first published by [[Gallimard]] in 1933.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nauroy|first=Amaury|url=http://www.gallimard.fr/Footer/Ressources/Entretiens-et-documents/Histoire-d-un-livre-La-Jument-verte-de-Marcel-Ayme/%28source%29/183122|title=Histoire d'un livre : ''La Jument verte'' de Marcel Aymé|work=gallimard.fr|language=French|publisher=[[Éditions Gallimard]]|access-date=2015-09-15}}</ref>

Aymé probably wrote ''La Jument verte'' during 1932 and early 1933. The novel was published to great success in June 1933, but provoked violent reactions from some quarters due to its frank depictions of sex.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=La Jument verte|url=https://www.marcelayme.net/marcel_ayme/oeuvre/romans/la_jument_verte/la_jument.html|website=SAMA: Société des amis de Marcel Aymé}}</ref>

The story is divided into seventeen chapters and is written using the [[Narrative mode#Third-person view|third person narrative mode]]; interspersed between them are a number of interludes all entitled "The Observations of the Green Mare" which are written as [[Narrative mode#Third-person view|first person narratives]]. These two different narrative modes used throughout the book allow the reader to observe the characters and situations from slightly different perspectives.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Aymé|first=Marcel|title=The Green Mare|publisher=The Bodley Head|year=1955|location=London}}</ref>

The novel is essentially an examination of the [[sexual mores]] and behaviors of the members of a small 19th century French village (the fictitious Claquebue<ref>{{Cite book|last=Taylor|first=Karen|title=The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel|publisher=Facts on File, Inc.|year=2006|isbn=9780816074990|pages=16}}</ref> in the [[Jura (department)|Jura department]]) around the time of the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. The plot concerns a [[feud]] that has taken place for generations between the Haudouin and Maloret families, and a missing letter that contains revealing secrets relating to the conflict. The green mare of the title is in fact a magical [[painting]] of an unusually-colored [[horse]] owned by one of the Haudouins that has somehow been imbued with an observing [[consciousness]] by the artist who painted it.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

''The Green Mare'' has been translated into English twice, first by an anonymous translator for [[The Fortune Press]] in 1938,<ref>{{Cite web |title=SFE: Aymé, Marcel |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ayme_marcel |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}</ref> and then by [[Norman Denny]] for [[The Bodley Head]] in 1955.<ref name=":1" />

The book was filmed by [[Claude Autant-Lara]] in 1959 as ''[[The Green Mare (film)|The Green Mare]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=43425.html|title=La Jument verte|language=French|work=[[AlloCiné]]|access-date=2015-09-15}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Autant-Lara |first=Claude |title=La jument verte |date=1961-10-23 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052953/ |type=Comedy, Drama, History |publisher=Raimbourg, S.O.P.A.C., Société Nouvelle des Établissements Gaumont (SNEG) |access-date=2022-04-09}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [[iarchive:greenmare00ayme|The Norman Denny translation]], available at the [[Internet Archive]]
* [http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Blanche/La-Jument-verte Publicity page] at [[Éditions Gallimard]]'s website {{in lang|fr}}

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