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...MIRACULOUS BARBER (248 pp.) -Marcel Aymé - Harper...
...Paris in the uneasy spring of 1936. Sitdowns close the factories, riots clog the streets, a Popular Front cabinet maneuvers for its life. To a Jules Remains or a Jean Paul Sartre this is the ideal setting for a lugubrious social novel. But not to Marcel Aymé. As a satirist by profession -and currently the best in France-Aymé gives 1936 France his usual deft, dry treatment...
Like The Barkeep of Blémont (TIME, May 15), Aymé's sardonic jab at the Resistance movement, The Miraculous Barber insists that even in times of historical crisis men display their customary capacity for making fools of themselves...
Picture on the Wall. Aymé writes about two families, the solid upper-class Lasquins and the bohemian middle-class Ancelots. M. Lasquin, a hard-working industrialist, falls dead at lunch one day, between the trout and the duck with orange sauce. The death is rather ill-timed, for the workers at his factory are restive. Who can take his place there? His son-in-law Pierre is the natural candidate, but Pierre cares nothing for industry and responsibility, or, for that matter, for his pretty young wife, Micheline. Pierre dreams of being a track star, keeps a picture...
...Barkeep of Blémont, by Marcel Aymée. What happens to wine-loving, live-and-let-live Bartender Leopold when he is caught in the postLiberation politics of his French town (TIME...