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Marcel Aymé (29 March 1902 – 14 October 1967) was a French novelist and playwright,[1][2] who also wrote screenplays and works for children.

Marcel Aymé
Aymé in 1929
BornMarcel André Aymé
(1902-03-29)March 29, 1902
Joigny
DiedOctober 14, 1967(1967-10-14) (aged 65)
Paris
Resting placeCimetière Saint-Vincent
OccupationAuthor and dramatist
LanguageFrench
EducationCollège de l'Arc (Dole) [fr]
Notable worksLa Jumente verte
Le Passe-muraille
Notable awardsPrix Renaudot
SpouseMarie-Antoinette Arnaud
Marcel Aymé's grave. Cimetière Saint-Vincent, Paris.
Marcel Aymé's grave. Cimetière Saint-Vincent, Paris.

Biography


Marcel André Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Burgundy region of France, the youngest of six children. His father, Joseph, was a blacksmith, and his mother, Emma Monamy, died when he was two years old, after the family had moved to Tours.[3] Marcel was sent to live with his maternal grandparents in the village of Villers-Robert, a place where he would spend the next eight years, and which would serve as the model for the fictitious village of Claquebue in what is perhaps the most well-known of his novels, La Jument verte. In 1906 Marcel entered the local primary school. Because his grandfather was a staunch anti-clerical republican, he was looked down upon by his classmates, many of whose parents held more traditional views. Accordingly, Marcel was not baptized before reaching the age of eight, nearly two years after the death of his grandfather in 1908. Orphaned once more when his grandmother died two years later, he briefly lived with other family members before moving to Dole, a small town of the Franche-Comte region, to stay with an aunt and attend the Collège de l'Arc, where he demonstrated more ability in mathematics than in literature. His years at school there were an unpleasant experience he would never look back on fondly.[4][5][6]

Despite ongoing issues with his health that had begun when he was a child, Aymé was able to perform his military service, which began in 1919, as part of an artillery unit in the occupied Rhineland. In 1923 he moved to Paris where he worked unsuccessfully at a bank, an insurance company, and as a journalist. Though he failed in his career as a reporter, his stint at the newspaper allowed him to discover his love of writing.[4][5][7]

His first published novel was Brûlebois (1926), and in 1929 his La Table aux crevés won the Prix Renaudot. After the great success of his novel La Jument verte (1933), translated into English as The Green Mare, he concentrated mostly on writing and published children's stories, novels, and collections of stories. In 1935 he also started writing movie scripts. In theater, Marcel Aymé found success with his plays Lucienne et le boucher, Clérambard (1949), a farce, and Tête des autres (1952), which criticized the death penalty.

He died in 1967 and was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris.


Work


One of Aymé's most famous short stories is Le passe-muraille or "The Walker-Through-Walls". At the age of 42, Dutilleul suddenly discovers that he has "the remarkable gift of being able to pass through walls with perfect ease". What begins as a novelty that gives him pleasure ends up pushing Dutilleul toward ever more sinister pursuits.


Legacy


Visitors to Paris can see a monument in his honor at Place Marcel-Aymé, in the Montmartre Quarter. The statue is based upon his short story "Le passe-muraille" ("The Walker through Walls").


Bibliography



Novels



Short story collections



French


English


Plays



Screenwriter



Filmography



See also



References


  1. "Marcel Aymé | French author | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  2. "SFE: Aymé, Marcel". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  3. "Biographie de Marcel Aymé avant 1920". www.marcelayme.net. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  4. Brosman, Catharine Savage (1988). French novelists, 1930-1960. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Inc. pp. 32–41. ISBN 978-0-8103-4550-8 – via Internet Archive.
  5. Brodin, Dorothy R. (1968). Marcel Aymé. Internet Archive. New York, Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-03128-8.
  6. Brodin, Dorothy (1964). The Comic World of Marcel Aymé. Paris: Nouvelles éditions Debresse. p. 13.
  7. Lord, Graham (1980). The short stories of Marcel Aymé. Internet Archive. Nedlands : University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 978-0-85564-180-1.



На других языках

- [en] Marcel Aymé

[ru] Эме, Марсель

Марсе́ль Эме́ (фр. Marcel Aymé, 29 марта 1902, Жуаньи, Йонна — 14 октября 1967, Париж) — французский писатель, прозаик и драматург, автор 17 романов, нескольких сборников рассказов, пьес, сказок, сценариев. В творчестве Эме сочетаются гротеск и социальная заострённость, сарказм и философия, реализм и фантастика, ирония и трагедия[4]. По мотивам его произведений были сняты многочисленные фильмы, такие как «Стол для умерших» Анри Вернёя, «Уран» Клода Берри, «Через Париж» Клода Отан-Лара и другие.


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