My Mother's Castle by Marcel Pagnol (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of My Mother’s Castle by Marcel Pagnol, an autobiographical tale which describes a year in the author’s childhood, focusing on the holidays he spent in the Provençal countryside with his family. During his time there, he develops a close friendship with Lili, a local boy, which leads the family to begin returning to their summer home more often, and to start using a different route to get there: a shortcut that leads them past four imposing castles. My Mother’s Castle is the second book in the Souvenirs d’enfance quartet, a very successful series of books which focus on Pagnol’s memories of his childhood and which are now regarded as classics of French literature. However, the author is not only famous for his novels, but also for his plays and films. He was the first filmmaker to be elected to the Académie française, and is widely considered to be one of France’s finest 20th century writers.
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French writer, dramatist and director
Born in Aubagne (France) in 1895.
Died in Paris in 1974.
Notable works:
Marius (1929), play
My Father’s Glory (1957), novel
My Mother’s Castle (1957), novel
Marcel Pagnol was born in Aubagne in 1895. His father was a teacher and his mother was a seamstress. He studied English at university in Aix-en-Provence and then decided to follow in his father’s footsteps by becoming a teacher.
He was very successful in Paris thanks to his plays, which prominently feature the region where he grew up (the famous Marseillaise trilogy: Marius, 1929; Fanny, 1931; and César, 1936). He was also interested in cinema and directed more than 20 films (including Heartbeat, 1938).
In 1946, he was elected to the Académie française. He began his career as a novelist in 1957 with the first two volumes of his Souvenirs d’enfance (Childhood Memories
) series, which were followed by The Water of the Hills in 1963. The Water of the Hills is the collective name for two of