Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol · Novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974) · 1895–1974

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What Dominique Pagani says

In Pagnol, Dominique Pagani returns mainly to the character of Honorine, the fishmonger in Marius. He credits her with a "savoury", or "generous", vulgarity in which he recognises a working-class flavour1. This figure comes up in different contexts: broadcasts and sessions devoted to Michel Clouscard, but also a Musicosophie session on Nietzsche and Wagner2. In a session with Clouscard, he takes her as an example of accent as a class marker3. From Marius he also retains the dream of travel that the character nurtures from the harbour, in a session on worldliness in Clouscard4. Regarding La Femme du boulanger, he cites the priest and the schoolteacher as figures of the rural village5. His mentions of Pagnol remain brief: he draws from them examples of working-class and provincial types, which he puts to use for other questions, notably that of social markers.

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Who is this?

Marcel Paul Pagnol (, also US: pah-NYAWL; French:; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his mastery of multiple literary genres—memoir, novel, theatre and film.

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