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...SECOND FACE (182 pp.)-Marcel Aymé-Harper...
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...
...Miraculous Barber, by Marcel Aymé. A dry and mocking satire of French life on the eve of World War II by one of the best contemporary French novelists (TIME, April...
Fingers in the Air. In surface contrast to these two families, Aymé brings in his barber, a self-satisfied sage who gives advice, in the name of France, to cabinet ministers after hours. "The Frenchman's got no use for revolutions," the barber says in one pronouncement. "What the Frenchman wants is to earn a comfortable living, eat well, drink well and enjoy himself." But the cream of Author Aymé's jest is that his barber, his symbolic natural wise man, is a fool himself...
...Miraculous Barber is a sharp-edged piece of satire, yet something is missing. Author Aymé once said that in his work he tried to achieve two emotions, humor and pity. The humor is there in abundance, but the pity is hard to find...