My Father's Glory & My Mother's Castle

Provencal sunshine bathed Marcel Pagnol's childhood memories of Provence. Jean Renoir called him the leading film artist of his age, and he is best known for The Bakers Wife, Harvest, Fanny, and Topaze and for screen adaptations of his novels Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs (North Point, 1988). But he never forgot the magic of his Provencal childhood. Memories became a great new success. My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle captivated readers with its sweet enchantments. His jaunts about Marseilles, schoolboy diversions, family: his anticlerical father and sanctimonious uncle; his mild and beautiful mother; as well as many other families are recalled.