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BIOGRAPHYOF MARCEL PAGNOL

Marcel Pagnol (1895 – 1974) was a playwright, film-producerand novelist, at all of which he gained distinction. He was born in the Provençal town of Aubagne, about eleven miles from Marseille. His father, Joseph, was an “instituteur”, the more modest rank of teacher as compared with the more qualified “professeur” of the lycées. His mother, Augustine was a dressmaker. Marcel was the eldest child and he had two younger brothers, Paul and René and a younger sister, Germaine. Marcel’s youngest brother, René, was born in 1909 and so does not appear in “Le Château de ma mere”, which tells of two years in the lives of the Pagnol family - 1904 – 1905.

In 1900, Joseph Pagnol was appointed to a new teaching post at the École des Chartreux in Marseille and the family had to move from the country to the big city. However the appeal of country life stayed with them and during the school vacation of the summer of 1904, the family

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Dans l'univers littéraire de Marcel Pagnol - Biographie d'une œuvre populaire - Christophe Chabbert

Dans l'univers littéraire de Marcel Pagnol - Biographie d'une œuvre populaire - Christophe Chabbert

(In the literary universe of Marcel Pagnol. Biography of a popular work)

Dans l'univers littéraire de Marcel Pagnol is not just another biography of a popular author everyone thinks they know well. Rather, it is the "biography of his work". This book offers an unprecedented insight into the world of Marcel Pagnol. Why do people in general love Pagnol and why, on the contrary, do intellectuals despise his work? This is the very first question posed by this essay. Is he really an author at odds with his era, a "special case" as the few academics interested in his work often like to define him? Who were his inspirers and masters? How can we explain his aesthetic choices? Who are his characters? How are his works constructed? Is he an author of comical works for schoolchildren only? This study calls into question many aspects that seemed to be the consensus, and sheds ne

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Biography: life and films

Marcel Pagnol was born in southern France in 1895, the son of a schoolmaster and a seamstress. The family settled in the Saint-Loup district of Marseilles and Pagnol enjoyed a stable, middle class family background, although his mother died from pneumonia when he was just 14. He studied philosophy at the University of Aix-en-Provence, where, in 1913, he founded a student literary magazine which became the influential Les cahiers du Sud.

After graduating and having been discharged from the army for health reasons, Pagnol began a career as a school teacher, working initially in Pignes and Tarascon. In 1916, he married his first wife Simone Collin and obtained a degree in literature. About this time, he began to write poetry. In 1922, he moved to Paris to continue his teaching career, whilst writing plays.

Pagnol's first major success as a writer was his 1925 play, Les Marchands de gloire, a satire on how opportunistic civilians profit from the heroism of soldiers during wartime. This was followed by Jazz (1926) and the hugely popular Topaze