La gloria de mi padre ; El castillo de mi madre

My Father's Glory (1957) and My Mother's Castle (1958), the unforgettable diptych of Marcel Pagnol's autobiographical narratives, take us directly to the childhood of our grandparents, our parents and our own. As their author wrote, "they are the testimony of a vanished era, and of a song of filial love that today may be something truly new". Thus, with simplicity and tenderness, he evokes the events that left a special mark on him, stopping at those small details that usually go unnoticed by adults and that, however, mean so much to us when we are children. Entertaining, a storyteller and with a genuine talent for recreating the sentimental world of a family in which all the characters are revealed in their purest humanity, Pagnol has made millions of readers of various generations laugh and cry, seduced by the unique atmosphere of his world full of humor and a hopeful and optimistic sense of life.