Marcel Pagnol was a writer, playwright and filmmaker french, born in 1895 in Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône), died April 18, 1974 in Paris at the age of 79. He became famous with Marius, a 1929 piece Five years later, in Marseille, he created his own production company and film studios, and performs many films entered my cultural pantheon - including with Raimu, Fernandel, Pierre Fresnay, Louis Jouvet; to include examples, Angela (1934), Regain (1937), The Baker's Wife (1938) etc. In 1946, he was elected to the French Academy. In 1957, after SETRE away from the cinema and theater, he began writing his Recollections including The Glory of my father and my mother Castle. In this first volume of childhood memories of Pagnol, we meet his father Joseph, secular and republican schoolteacher, his mother Augustine, a seamstress and her little brother Paul youngest of three years. From the first sentence of louvrage, the tone, "I was born in the town of Aubagne, under the crowned Garlaban goats at the time of the last goatherds." The city evokes the sun and singing The emphasis of Provencal and goatherds and their beasts of old in the rocky countryside. At that time, Marcel was eight and her parents are little older, his father "cétait twenty-five years older than me, and it has never changed," and his mother are six less than her husband. Pagnol only live three years in Aubagne because his father was transferred to Marseille. When the child didnt school, he took a walk in the Borely park with his aunt Rose and this is also where she will meet the future Uncle Jules. The relationship between the Joseph anticlerical teacher and the uncle Jules Catholic jovial, sometimes cause some friction quickly extinguished by their wives. Nevertheless, the two couples decide to rent a country house set in the garrigue, the Bastide Neuve to spend the summer holidays. Excellent passage where Joseph, in a junk shop, buys some furniture to be used to furnish their future paradise. Therefore, the book becomes a delight, because after a long drive in the rough scrubland behind the mule pulling the furniture and the necessary provisions to stay, they come to the small villa and lon SIMagine in a film company of actors cited higher. These holidays are a revelation for the young Marcel who falls in love with nature, wildlife, wild vegetation, hills, real settings where he can relive the stories dIndiens he feasts with his brother. The book then covers the last part, the discovery of the hunt - at the instigation of the uncle Jules - as much for Joseph Marcel. The kid will follow the two men without their knowledge, through bushes, valleys and sunken roads, determined at all costs to value his novice father art hunting, trying to fall back towards him prey for his gun. A day full lissue dune adventures and efforts to the child, Joseph succeed a coup, killing two partridges, local partridge, an incredible feat even to seasoned hunters from the village. Both men and Marcel reunited, will return home, the mad kid happiness because "in my little bloody from where fists hung four golden wings, I shrugged to heaven the glory of my father in front of the setting sun." A very nice book, quon can not help but read out in his head, to give it that wonderful accent reminding us the song of cicadas, the taste of pastis and warm caress of the sun.
"- There is one who nest hardly friendly, said my father. They are not all like that, 'said the farmer. This one wants to hurt me, because this is my brother. Therefore it seemed clear enough, he dragged the mule, which dropped some buns and, finally, put his rectum upside down under the dune shaped tomato. I thought that he was going to die, but my father reassured me: - He does it by hygiene, 'he said. This is his way clean BE. "