My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle (Picador Books) - Softcover

Pagnol, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330321900 ISBN 13: 9780330321907

Publisher: Picador, 1991

Synopsis

With warmth, lucidity and good humour, Pagnol, a boy from the city, recounts the glorious summer days he spent exploring the sun-baked Provençal countryside. He vividly captures the atmosphere of a childhood filled with the simple pleasures: a meal, a joke, an outing shared with his close-knit and loving family.

These heart-warming stories remind us of how children can invest the smallest event or statement with incredible significance, how mysterious the workings of the adult world can seem to them and how painful the learning process can often prove. However, Pagnol’s writing is filled with enormous optimism and delight. And his triumph in these classic memoirs is to have created that rare thing, a work suffused with joy.

‘Pagnol’s place in the history of French culture is secure. The Prousts and Sartres may be admired, but Pagnol is loved’ Times Literary Supplement

About this title

Review:

"Pagnol lived what he made movies and wrote about.... More than just the reminiscences of a happy childhood, these pages resonate with the inspirational qualities of all Pagnol's work: the good humor, the love of nature, the sensuality, and the strong feeling for family and tradition."--Alice Waters "Marcel Pagnol has taught me a great deal more than anyone would guess. In his final moments Pagnol became almost godlike in his mix of deep understanding and earthy enjoyment, his hilarious and compassionate understanding of the people of Marseilles and Provence."--M. F. K. Fisher

Book Description:

Two glowing volumes of childhood memoirs by the author of the acclaimed Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0330321900
• ISBN 13: 9780330321907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352