Word: aym
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
...Barkeep of Blémont, by Marcel Aymé. What happens to wine-loving, live-and-let-live Bartender Leopold when he is caught in the postLiberation political recriminations of his French town (TIME...
...Barkeep of Blémont, by Marcel Aymé. What happens to wine-loving, live-and-let-live Bartender Leopold when he is caught in the postLiberation political recriminations of his French town (TIME...
...Barkeep of Blémont hardly manages to encompass the round story of the Resistance and Liberation; there was more altruism, idealism and common sense to it than Author Aymé admits. But he does strike a stout blow for the easygoing natural man in his perennial struggle with those to whom "an idea or creed takes precedence over life itself." The rest of Author Aymé's assumption is that the easygoing fellow is doomed from the start...
...with Pity. Even among the innumerable literary pessimists of Paris, 48-year-old Marcel Aymé sets something of a record in his skepticism about the human, race. A dour man with big ears and a considerable resemblance to Buster Keaton, he has a reputation for his provoking silences in company. (When André Gide kindly congratulated him on one of his plays recently, Aymé stared at the old master without saying a word.) In his books, there are only two emotions Aymé has any use for, humor and pity...