Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974)
Author of My Father's Glory
About the Author
Marcel Pagnol was born on February 28, 1895. He was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française. Pagnol died in Paris on April 18, 1974. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: Marcel Pagnol In France In 1967
Series
Works by Marcel Pagnol
Souvenirs d'Enfance, 4 Volumes: La Gloire de Mon Pere, Le Chateau de ma Mere, Le Temps des Secrets, Le Temps des Amours (1987) 6 copies
Marius [1931 film] — Screenwriter — 6 copies
Confidences (suivi de) Les secrets de DIeu (suivi de) Discours a l'academie francaise (1991) 3 copies
KOHA E TË FSHEHTAVE 2 copies
Oeuvres complètes - Tome 12 - Souvenirs d'enfance : l temps des secrets - Le livre de la nature (1970) 2 copies
Cigalon [1935 film] 2 copies
Angèle [1934 film] — Director/Screenwriter — 2 copies
Oeuvres complètes tome 6 - La belle meunière - Angèle - Trois lettres de mon moulin - La prière aux étoiles (1972) 2 copies
Fiche de lecture Topaze (Analyse littéraire de référence et résumé complet) (French Edition) (2018) 1 copy
Pigen fra kilderne 1 copy
a infância de um escritor 1 copy
Le Château de ma mère... 1 copy
L'eau des collines... 1 copy
Jak voní tymián 1 copy
El Castillo de mi Padre 1 copy
La Gloire de mon Pere 1 copy
Manon des Sources 1 copy
Le Temps des Amours 1 copy
O Castelo de Minha Mãe 1 copy
Merlusse - bCigalon 1 copy
Oeuvres complètes 6 Tome 5 - Le Schpountz - La femme du boulanger - La fille du puisatier - Le rosier de Mme Husson (1970) 1 copy
Souvenirs d' enfance de Marcel Pagnol. Extraits de 'Le chateau de ma mère', texte corrigé pour les enfants (1981) 1 copy
Souvenirs d'enfance : Extraits de La gloire de mon père, Le château de ma mère, Le temps des secrets 1 copy
Catulle - Pirouettes 1 copy
Les Curés 1 copy
Shakespeare 1 copy
Marchands de Gloire - Topaze 1 copy
Na 1 copy
Oeuvres complètes tome 10 ( La gloire de mon père - Le château de ma mère - Cinématurgie de Paris ) 1 copy
La Gloire De Mon PËre 1 copy
Oeuvres complètes tome 7 ( La belle meunière - Le rosier madame Husson - Cigalon - Naïs - Merlusse ) 1 copy
Oeuvres complètes de Marcel Pagnol Tome 5 (Le Schpountz, La Femme du boulanger, La Fille du puisatier) (1978) 1 copy
Oeuvres complètes de Marcel Pagnol Tome 3 (Topaze, Fabien, Le Songe d'une nuit d'été) chez Jean de Bonnot (1978) 1 copy
מאנון חלק שני 1 copy
Associated Works
The Well-Digger's Daughter (La fille du puisatier) [2011 film] (2011) — Original screenplay — 20 copies, 3 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Pagnol, Marcel
- Legal name
- Pagnol, Marcel Paul
- Birthdate
- 1895-02-28
- Date of death
- 1974-04-18
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Lycée Thiers
Aix-en-Provence University
University of Montpellier - Occupations
- filmmaker
playwright
novelist - Organizations
- Académie française (1946)
- Awards and honors
- Best foreign film - New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1939)
Best foreign film - New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1940)
Best foreign film - New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1950)
Honorary César (1981) - Short biography
- Marcel Pagnol was born in southern France as the son of a schoolmaster and a seamstress. He studied philosophy at the university of Aix en Provence where in 1913 he founded a student literary magazine wich became the influential Les Cahiers De Sud. After graduating Pagnol began a career as a schoolteacher and began to write poetry. Pagnol's first major success as a writer was his play Les Marchands de gloire. This was followed by Jazz (1926) and Topaze ( 1928) and Marius (1929). In 1932 Pagnol started his own film production company. His first films were Marius (1931) and Joffroi (1932). Pagnol developed his own style of film making. His films were almost exclusively human dramas filmed on location in the beautiful Provencal countryside and towns were Pagnol grew up as a boy. Pagnol's most known films are the Marius-Fanny-Cesar trilogy based on his plays. In 1946 Pagnol was elected to the Academy Francaise, the first film director who became member of the Academy. In 1953 he directed the film Jean de la Florette based on his novels Jean de la Florette and Manon des Sources. He also began working for television. After a brilliant literary and film career wich made him one of the most respected creative talents in France Pagnol died in 1974.
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Aubagne, Bouche-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Places of residence
- Aubagne, France (birth)
Paris, France (death)
Marseille, France - Place of death
- Paris, France
- Burial location
- Cimetière La Treille, Marseille, France
- Associated Place (for map)
- France
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Reviews
Au village des Bastides Blanches, on hait ceux de Crespin. C'est pourquoi lorsque Jean Cadoret, le Bossu, s'installe à la ferme des Romarins, on ne lui parle pas de la source cachée.
Ce qui facilite les manœuvres des Soubeyran, le Papet et son neveu Ugolin. qui veulent lui racheter son domaine à bas prix...
Jean de Florette (1962), premier volume de L'Eau des collines, marque, trente ans après Pirouettes, le retour de Pagnol au roman.
C'est l'épopée de l'eau nourricière sans laquelle show more rien n'est possible. Marcel Pagnol y développe l'histoire du père de Manon, évoquée sous forme de flash-back dans le filin Manon des sources (1952).
Les dialogues sont savoureux, et la prose aussi limpide que dans les Souvenirs d'enfance.
Quant au Papet et à Ugolin, à la fois drôles et terrifiants, ils sont parmi les créations les plus complexes de Pagnol. " Tu comprends, s'ils avaient bu l'eau de la citerne, c'est sûr qu'ils seraient morts tous les trois, et moi ça m'aurait embêté.
D'avoir bouché la source, c'est pas criminel : c'est pour les œillets. Mais si, à cause de ça, il y avait des morts, eh bien peut-être qu'après nous n'en parlerions pas, mais nous y penserions.
Récit simple et puissant d'une lutte pour la vie, histoire d'un crime et de son châtiment, drame d'une vengeance, tragédie familiale, conflit des coeurs purs et des âmes fortes, opposant un jeune citadin plein de fraîcheur et d'enthousiasme à deux paysans durs, âpres, sournois, fermés, implacables, peinture exacte et magnifique des hommes de la terre, chant du monde, poème de l'eau, du vent, des saisons, des collines, Jean de Florette et Manon des sources sont tout cela et ils sont beaucoup plus que cela, un des sommets de l'oeuvre de Pagnol: le livre de la faute, de l'innocence et du pardon. show less
Ce qui facilite les manœuvres des Soubeyran, le Papet et son neveu Ugolin. qui veulent lui racheter son domaine à bas prix...
Jean de Florette (1962), premier volume de L'Eau des collines, marque, trente ans après Pirouettes, le retour de Pagnol au roman.
C'est l'épopée de l'eau nourricière sans laquelle show more rien n'est possible. Marcel Pagnol y développe l'histoire du père de Manon, évoquée sous forme de flash-back dans le filin Manon des sources (1952).
Les dialogues sont savoureux, et la prose aussi limpide que dans les Souvenirs d'enfance.
Quant au Papet et à Ugolin, à la fois drôles et terrifiants, ils sont parmi les créations les plus complexes de Pagnol. " Tu comprends, s'ils avaient bu l'eau de la citerne, c'est sûr qu'ils seraient morts tous les trois, et moi ça m'aurait embêté.
D'avoir bouché la source, c'est pas criminel : c'est pour les œillets. Mais si, à cause de ça, il y avait des morts, eh bien peut-être qu'après nous n'en parlerions pas, mais nous y penserions.
Récit simple et puissant d'une lutte pour la vie, histoire d'un crime et de son châtiment, drame d'une vengeance, tragédie familiale, conflit des coeurs purs et des âmes fortes, opposant un jeune citadin plein de fraîcheur et d'enthousiasme à deux paysans durs, âpres, sournois, fermés, implacables, peinture exacte et magnifique des hommes de la terre, chant du monde, poème de l'eau, du vent, des saisons, des collines, Jean de Florette et Manon des sources sont tout cela et ils sont beaucoup plus que cela, un des sommets de l'oeuvre de Pagnol: le livre de la faute, de l'innocence et du pardon. show less
I love this book.
Manon des sources is the grand continuation of and conclusion to Jean de Florette. It's dramatic, it's romanticized, it's full of big emotions, and it's vigorously traditional in all its pastoral glory -- but it carries a sting! In fact, the best description I can think of for Manon is that it plays out like an arcadian tale with the full force and the inevitable doom of a Greek tragedy. Because that's exactly what it is: the unforgiving maiden, wronged by a greedy tyrant; show more the magic rituals of unrequited love; and the implacable doom of unavoidable fate that is brought about by the silliest of details.
This second part of the story may be perceived as slow by some, but it wasn't so for me: rather, it reminded me of an extended folksy yarn that doesn't really work until you know the characters involved -- a you-had-to-have-been-there feel. Pagnol carefully sets up the story, taking care to draw the characters with all their quirks and humanness so that by the end the reader feels as if they really have been there. Once the scene rolls around where Manon finds out about the tacit betrayal that she's unwittingly been the victim of, the plot picks up and paces speedily towards the bittersweet tragedy at the end.
And Manon gets to speak, too! Berri's movies cast her as the demure, mostly silent maiden throwing mysterious glances over one shoulder (strikingly different from her character in Pagnol's own 1952 movie), but Manon is fully fleshed out here, with articulated hopes and dreams and internal monologues and conversations and everything that a character needs to feel real.
Even though this book has a curious simplistic 19th-century taste to it -- both the good and the bad guys might as well come colour-coded -- Pagnol manages to add some wonderful characterization. The bad guys from Jean de Florette slowly morph into a cast of beautifully gray characters, and all the while Pagnol is pretending that this is a naive folk tale with clear heroes and villains in a rustic setting, he's really setting the stage for some genuine emotional involvement.
I thought the end felt a tad over-the-top, a little too rushed and simplistic for a novel that revels in graying out its villains; but that's a minor quibble among all the loveliness that Manon des sources has on offer. Read this book (and the prequel). You won't regret it. show less
Manon des sources is the grand continuation of and conclusion to Jean de Florette. It's dramatic, it's romanticized, it's full of big emotions, and it's vigorously traditional in all its pastoral glory -- but it carries a sting! In fact, the best description I can think of for Manon is that it plays out like an arcadian tale with the full force and the inevitable doom of a Greek tragedy. Because that's exactly what it is: the unforgiving maiden, wronged by a greedy tyrant; show more the magic rituals of unrequited love; and the implacable doom of unavoidable fate that is brought about by the silliest of details.
This second part of the story may be perceived as slow by some, but it wasn't so for me: rather, it reminded me of an extended folksy yarn that doesn't really work until you know the characters involved -- a you-had-to-have-been-there feel. Pagnol carefully sets up the story, taking care to draw the characters with all their quirks and humanness so that by the end the reader feels as if they really have been there. Once the scene rolls around where Manon finds out about the tacit betrayal that she's unwittingly been the victim of, the plot picks up and paces speedily towards the bittersweet tragedy at the end.
And Manon gets to speak, too! Berri's movies cast her as the demure, mostly silent maiden throwing mysterious glances over one shoulder (strikingly different from her character in Pagnol's own 1952 movie), but Manon is fully fleshed out here, with articulated hopes and dreams and internal monologues and conversations and everything that a character needs to feel real.
Even though this book has a curious simplistic 19th-century taste to it -- both the good and the bad guys might as well come colour-coded -- Pagnol manages to add some wonderful characterization. The bad guys from Jean de Florette slowly morph into a cast of beautifully gray characters, and all the while Pagnol is pretending that this is a naive folk tale with clear heroes and villains in a rustic setting, he's really setting the stage for some genuine emotional involvement.
I thought the end felt a tad over-the-top, a little too rushed and simplistic for a novel that revels in graying out its villains; but that's a minor quibble among all the loveliness that Manon des sources has on offer. Read this book (and the prequel). You won't regret it. show less
I've been carrying this book around for years (along with its sequel) and finally allowed myself to indulge in its dreaminess. The language is rich and evocative of time and place and Pagnol is a master of character and caricature as well as of dialogue. Ostensibly, this should "fire on all cylinders"; unfortunately for me, it fell a little short of its mark.
I longed for a much more layered and nuanced story behind Jean's ultimate failure; instead I found a man who willingly and blithely show more ignores his own limitations in favour of stupefying and (pardon the pun) harebrained schemes for success, with nothing more to his credit than his blind optimism, his harmonica and his book-learning. I didn't feel that Pagnol offered much more insight than this -- which ultimately turns Jean into a caricature of optimism for me.
While César and Ugolin's underhanded machinations cannot be ignored, it seems to me that Jean would have failed with or without their "help" as he stubbornly refused to submit to even a modicum of circumspection -- which in this case would have been the ingredient necessary for success. Circumspection in this case is most apt as it derives from the Old French, meaning "a careful observation of one's surroundings." Even a cursory glance about his surroundings would have told Jean his venture might be problematic given that he quite clearly faced the challenges of Nature against him. A more modest and careful approach would not have burned a hole in his pocket quite so quickly, nor would it have led him to the final grief of robbing his family of their lifeblood, quite literally.
I'm befuddled by those who speak of a dark and depressing tale, for on the main Pagnol paints some wonderful caricatures of both town jake and country bumpkin to great comic effect. And the depressing factor seeps in, for me, in the guise of rage at this man's stupidity. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the colourful journey in Provence, rich with Pagnol's imagery.
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I longed for a much more layered and nuanced story behind Jean's ultimate failure; instead I found a man who willingly and blithely show more ignores his own limitations in favour of stupefying and (pardon the pun) harebrained schemes for success, with nothing more to his credit than his blind optimism, his harmonica and his book-learning. I didn't feel that Pagnol offered much more insight than this -- which ultimately turns Jean into a caricature of optimism for me.
While César and Ugolin's underhanded machinations cannot be ignored, it seems to me that Jean would have failed with or without their "help" as he stubbornly refused to submit to even a modicum of circumspection -- which in this case would have been the ingredient necessary for success. Circumspection in this case is most apt as it derives from the Old French, meaning "a careful observation of one's surroundings." Even a cursory glance about his surroundings would have told Jean his venture might be problematic given that he quite clearly faced the challenges of Nature against him. A more modest and careful approach would not have burned a hole in his pocket quite so quickly, nor would it have led him to the final grief of robbing his family of their lifeblood, quite literally.
I'm befuddled by those who speak of a dark and depressing tale, for on the main Pagnol paints some wonderful caricatures of both town jake and country bumpkin to great comic effect. And the depressing factor seeps in, for me, in the guise of rage at this man's stupidity. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the colourful journey in Provence, rich with Pagnol's imagery.
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Engaging, light and charming: absolutely dripping with gentle irony and turn-of the-century Provençal atmosphere. The book is too obviously structured to be really plausible as a memoir, but it works very well as a story.
You can see Pagnol's theatrical roots showing all over the place. In the scene where the men test their guns by firing at the toilet door, for example, you know from the start that every convention of stage and screen demands that a terrified person emerge from the toilet show more after the firing has ceased: Pagnol is not one to rebel against that sort of demand...
Being French, the local wildlife appears only to be tortured by small boys, shot for pleasure by adults, or discussed in terms of recipes. I suppose you have to accept this as a convention, but it is a little off-putting. Apart from that, the book is pleasantly harmless. Something I particularly enjoyed was the way he brings in pastiche Fenimore Cooper in the big hunting scene. Definitely one to read on a sleepy summer afternoon if you happen to have a fig tree to sit under; if you don't, then you will have to try to imagine the cicadas... show less
You can see Pagnol's theatrical roots showing all over the place. In the scene where the men test their guns by firing at the toilet door, for example, you know from the start that every convention of stage and screen demands that a terrified person emerge from the toilet show more after the firing has ceased: Pagnol is not one to rebel against that sort of demand...
Being French, the local wildlife appears only to be tortured by small boys, shot for pleasure by adults, or discussed in terms of recipes. I suppose you have to accept this as a convention, but it is a little off-putting. Apart from that, the book is pleasantly harmless. Something I particularly enjoyed was the way he brings in pastiche Fenimore Cooper in the big hunting scene. Definitely one to read on a sleepy summer afternoon if you happen to have a fig tree to sit under; if you don't, then you will have to try to imagine the cicadas... show less
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