Pagnol Marcel

1922 · Best.-Nr. H2901 — Marseille: Editions de 1922. First printing. Wraps. Good. Inscribed by Pagnol to Eugene Silvain doyen of the Comédie Francaise and a very well known actor and author in 1923. Pagnol notes that this is the last copy he has of the original printing. Small quarto wraps good plus copy some shelfwear and soil to wraps and what looks like old streaks of glue to rear wrap contents tanning. Possibly Pagnol's first book he also published a novel “Pirouettes” in 1922 from his earliest time in Paris when he was still teaching English. Although he first started working on this play in 1913 completing it in 1920 it was not published until 1922. In 1928 Pagnol proposed staging it at the Theatre Silvain with Eugene Silvain playing the title role but although Silvain was friendly with the Pagnol he declared that Pagnol had "no sense of theater." Pagnol was at that time an overnight success because of his play Topaze so it might have been professional jealousy on Silvain's part as he came from an older generation and tradition. In any case a superb association copy between a young playwright and an older and established actor and author. Pagnol went on to become France’s first “auteur” filmmaker and the first filmmaker elected to the Academie Francaise. There was a brief revival of interest in Pagnol in the late 1980s when two of his books were made into critically and commercially successful films by director Claude Berri: “Jean de Florette” and “Manon des Sources.”. Editions de unknown