Title : My Mother's Castle - Marcel Pagnol - book

Summary :

The most beautiful book about childhood friendship: one morning while hunting in the hills, Marcel meets the little peasant, Lili des Bellons. His vacation and his whole life will be illuminated by it.

A year after The Glory of My Father , Marcel Pagnol thought he was concluding his Childhood Memories with this castle of my mother (1958), the second part of what he considered a diptych, ending with the famous scene of the ferocious guard frightening the timid Augustine. Little Marcel, after the tenderness of his family, has discovered friendship with the marvelous Lili, undoubtedly the most endearing of his characters. The book ends with a melancholic epilogue, a poignant elegy to the time that has passed. Pagnol strikes the chords of a gravity to which he rarely accustomed his readers.

"Hey! Friend!"
I saw a boy my age looking at me sternly. "You mustn't touch other people's traps," he said. "A trap is sacred!" "I wasn't going to take it," I said. "I wanted to see the bird."
He approached: he was a little peasant. He was dark, with a fine Provençal face, black eyes and long girlish eyelashes. 

• EAN: 9782877065085
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