Fanny

Fanny forms the second part of the trilogy, following Marius (1929). These first two parts were written for the stage, while César (1936) was written directly for the cinema, before being adapted for the theater ten years later. “In Fanny, through the character of Panisse, Pagnol composes an ambiguous portrait of the virtues and pettinesses of a well-ordered charity. Pagnol here returns to the vein of the secular moralist that had made the success of Topaze in 1928. Without illusion, without bitterness or contempt for the universality of human weaknesses, he offers, as an alternative to the difficulty of living, a pessimism with a lilting accent” (Pierre Notte, secretary general of the Comédie-Française, on the occasion of the play’s revival at the Vieux-Colombier in 2008).

A fine copy in wrappers, with wide margins.