Word: aym
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...BARKEEP OF BLÉMONT (280 pp.)-Marcel Aymé-Harper...
...French fiction has been obsessed with the theme of the Resistance movement. Usually it portrays the movement with the moralistic, black & white simplicity of Zane Grey on the subject of cowboys and rustlers. In dealing with the theme in The Barkeep of Blémont, French Novelist Marcel Aymé has granted it some of the complexity it possesses. Because he has gone beyond mere slogans and asked himself how people actually felt and behaved immediately following France's Liberation, his novel shines with quiet credibility...