Word: aym
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Face, by Marcel Aymé.One of the best of Gallic ironists tells what happens when a solemn, rather dutiful Frenchman gets a handsome new face...
...Second Face, by Marcel Aymé. One of the best ironists in the business tells what happens when a solemn, rather dutiful Frenchman gets a handsome new face (TIME, April...
...SECOND FACE (182 pp.)-Marcel Aymé-Harper...
...this point, strangers to the novels of Marcel Aymé may very well decide that he is merely setting the stage for slapstick. But as readers of The Barkeep of Element and The Miraculous Barber have reason to know, Author Aymé is one of the most formidable ironists alive. He takes Lead Merchant Cerusier for a quicksilver ride among such big questions as: How much of life is essence and how much appearance? Is a man what he looks...
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre went on grubbing for the sources of France's moral decay in Troubled Sleep, while Marcel Aymé took a tolerant satirist's view of that same decay in The Miraculous Barber. Sweden's Pär Lagerkvist won the Nobel Prize (he was Faulkner's runner-up last year) soon after his Barabbas was published in the U.S. It was the story of a brutish man, spared from crucifixion in place of Jesus, who carried the memory of Golgotha through the rest of his life. Only a brief sample of Lagerkvist...