Le passe-muraille by Marcel Aymé6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The TV production 'Le Passe-muraille', a one-off comedy, adapts Aymé's story of the same name, his best-known tale. Desperate to get rid of this inconvenience, he proceeds to commit every imaginable sin. (This is especially evident in his bitter story 'La Carte'.) My own favourite Aymé tale is 'La Grace', about an ordinary man - a decent individual, but hardly a candidate for sainthood - who suddenly finds himself equipped with an unwanted halo. Some of Aymé's best stories, intriguingly, were written during the Nazi occupation. There are also distinct similarities between Aymé's works and the stories of James Thurber. Aymé wrote fantasy stories which, like Smith's, tended to feature unobtrusive men whose lives are irrevocably changed by an unexpected encounter with the supernatural, not always ending happily but usually with a bit of sex along the way. Marcel Aymé (pronounced 'Ah-may') was France's equivalent to Thorne Smith. ![]()
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