Sebastián a Mary-Morgan

by Cécile Aubry

Ďalší diel Sebastiánových príhod pomenovaný podľa Mary-Morgan, bájnej postavy z bretónskej legendy, povestnej dcéry mora. 12-ročný Sebastián sa tentoraz ocitá v prostredí svojho prastrýka, starého lodiara, náruživého milovníka mora, čo dožíva svoj bohatý a pohnutý život v ústraní, neďaleko rybárskeho mestečka. Sebastián sa takto oboznamuje s tvrdým rybárskym remeslom. Námorníci, živitelia rodín, sa niekoľko mesiacov kruto pasujú s morom, keď odchádzajú každoročne loviť tresky do mrazivých grónskych vôd. Podarí sa Sebastiánovi rozohnať chmáry tragédie, neprestajne sa vznášajúcej nad starým domom v Morsane? Podarí sa mu preklenúť priepasť nenávisti spred dvadsiatich rokov, prenášajúcej sa z otca na syna? Zachráni sa udatná posádka trawlera Narval, ktorú majiteľova nezodpovednosť vystavila napospas víchriciam a búrkam nehostinných severských vôd? Nasťahuje sa radosť a pohoda do kruto skúšaných rybárskych rodín aj do sŕdc obyvateľov v zátoke Morsan?

Genres: Animals

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Cécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.

She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and regularly appearing in French film magazines as an example of the perfect hybrid of Franco-American femininity.

Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh. She announced her retirement from film in 1959, claiming that she had only enjoyed cinema for its travel opportunities. She went on to write children's books and scenarios for children's television with considerable success.

She is known in France for her TV series for children, Poly, about a boy and a horse, and Belle et Sébastien, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son, Mehdi El Glaoui (credited as "Mehdi").

On 19 July 2010, she died from lung cancer in Dourdan (Essonne), France, aged 81.