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La Gloire de Mon Pere
La Gloire de Mon Pere | Marcel Pagnol
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Un petit Marseillais d'il y a un siecle: l'ecole primaire; le cocon familial; les premieres vacances dans les collines, a La Treille; la premiere chasse avec son pere...Lorsqu il commence a rediger ses "Souvenirs d'enfance," au milieu des annees cinquante, Marcel Pagnol est en train de s'eloigner du cinema., et le theatre ne lui sourit plus."La Gloire de mon pere," des sa parution, en 1957, est salue comme marquant l'avenement d'un grand prosateur. Joseph, le pere instituteur., Augustine, la timide maman., l'oncle Jules, la tante Rose, le petit frere Paul, deviennent immediatement aussi populaires que Marius, Cesar ou Panisse. Et la scene de la chasse a la bartavelle se transforme immediatement en dictee d'ecole primaire...Les souvenirs de Pagnol sont un peu ceux de tous les enfants du monde. Plus tard, parait-il, Pagnol aurait voulu qu'ils deviennent un film. C 'est Yves Robert qui, longtemps apres la mort de l'ecrivain, le realisera."- Je suis ne dans la ville d'Aubagne. sons le Garlaban couronne de chevres au temps des derniers chevriers. -""
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
La Gloire de Mon Pere | Marcel Pagnol
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Booksellers are just as lovely in Paris as they are in Pennsylvania. Not that I ever had any doubt. I went to three book shops today looking for the tagged book (in French) for my high school Junior granddaughter. I told her to pick a book she wanted from France, and she gave me three to choose from. This one is apparently the hardest to find, and yet ... voila! (Then I looked it up on Amazon—it‘s available there!)

catsuit_mango It's strange because I've read and loved a lot of pagnol and thought it would be widely available... But on the other hand I was reading from my dad's bookshelves. What other books were on her list? I hope she likes it. 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @catsuit_mango The other two were la femme rompue by simone de beauvoir, and notre dame de paris by victor hugo 6y
catsuit_mango La gloire de mon père is the easiest. But having Notre Dame de Paris brought back to her from Paris right now would have had extra significance 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @catsuit_mango Yes, I thought of that too. I may still get it for her also. 6y
Blaire I read le gloire de mon pere in high school and really liked it. I agree @catsuit_mango I assumed this was a popular book. I think I remember a film adaptation that was quite good. (edited) 6y
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