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Stories in the Modern Manner. A soft-cover collection of 14 hard-shelled short stories, by such highbrow authors as Alberto Moravia and Marcel Aymé. Good and reasonably clean fun (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 24, 1953 | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

Stories in the Modern Manner. A soft-cover collection of 14 hard-shelled short stories, by such highbrow authors as Alberto Moravia and Marcel Aymé. Good, and reasonably clean, fun (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Collar Faust | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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