by Marcel Pagnol · Presses Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266000833
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«La femme du boulanger» is Marcel Pagnol's novel, published by Presses Pocket in paperback (212 pages, in French).
The story takes place in a village in Provence, where a baker arrives with his young wife. When she runs off with a shepherd, the baker refuses to keep baking; the neighbours, fearing they will be left without bread, try to get him back to the oven while searching for the woman. A rural comedy about love, pride and community life.
This edition bears the subtitle «d'après un conte de Jean Giono»: the novel adapts a tale by the French writer.
For readers of French classics who want to read Marcel Pagnol in his original language, with the humour and rural portrait that characterise his work.
Marcel Paul Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his mastery of multiple literary genres —memoir, novel, theatre and film.
