Word: aym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green Mare (Zenith-International) is what happens when the French take another whack at Fanny. Like that famously funny film first made by Marcel Pagnol, The Green Mare is a comedy of barnyard humors adapted from a ribald but rusé ironic novel by Marcel Aymé. Regrettably, Director Claude Autant-Lara lacks both Pagnol's touch and Aymé's intensity. The Green Mare ain't what she used to be. Nevertheless she is, as the French say, green-which means, as the Americans say, blue. The plot, for example, involves a Rabelaisian family feud...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Aymé. In this batch of short stories, the Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence...
...PROVERB AND OTHER STORIES (287 pp.) -Marcel Aymé-Atheneum...
Adept as he is at sleight-of-hand tales, Aymé is even better at psychological feet-of-clay stories. The title piece, The Proverb, is about a boy who has been brought up to worship his father but also fears and dislikes him. One day the father insists on writing a school essay for his son. The teacher openly ridicules the effort as a piece of rhetorical bombast, gives the boy the lowest mark in the class. On tenterhooks, the proud father asks his son the grade. Tempted to deflate the stuffy old humbug, the boy lies instead...
...Marcel Aymé, 59, is never seen out of doors without dark glasses, which rather befits a Mephistophelian moralist. Hell may be badly paved but it is well...