by Marcel Pagnol · Presses Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266000314
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«La Gloire de mon père» is Marcel Pagnol's autobiographical novel, published by Presses Pocket in paperback (280 pages, in French).
An autobiographical account in which Marcel Pagnol recovers memories of his childhood in Provence: holidays, landscapes, family life and admiration for his father. The author himself presents the work as the story of a child that may not be very different from that of any reader, told with humour and emotion.
First instalment of the «Souvenirs d'enfance» series; the work was originally published in 1957 and this Presses Pocket edition is from 1976.
For readers interested in classic French fiction and autobiographical accounts of childhood.
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.
