by Marcel Pagnol · Fortunio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877060592
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«Topaze» is the play by Marcel Pagnol, published by Fortunio in paperback (252 pages, in French).
A modest chemistry teacher, honest and naive, is hired as a front man by a corrupt councillor. Topaze thus discovers social hypocrisy and the power of money; after rebelling, he ends up accepting the rules of the game. It is a satirical comedy of manners that criticises the bourgeois morality of interwar France.
The play premiered in 1928, was Marcel Pagnol's first major theatrical success and led to several film adaptations.
Topaze is a work suitable for students of French and for those who enjoy classic French theatre.
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.
