Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé ( born March 29, 1902 in Joigny, † October 14th 1967 in Paris) was a French storyteller and playwright.
Life
Coming from a humble background (his father was a blacksmith by trade ), Aymé first began to study medicine and worked as an insurance agent, bricklayer, painter, journalist, bank employee and Extra in the film. After a long illness, he devoted himself to writing and became a multi-award- winning writer. His realistic written novels and short stories are characterized by a bizarre, often biting humor, with typical urban-rural events often form the background. His main work The green mare was filmed with great success, as well as many other of his books.
Marcel Aymé died at the age of 65 years in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière Saint -Vincent in Montmartre.
Him his residence in Montmartre, 26 rue Norvins, 2, Place Marcel Aymé was renamed in honor, and there is a bronze sculpture was inaugurated in 1989, which refers to his well-known short story Le passe- muraille and Aymé is which just by a wall goes. This amendment was also made into a musical. The music was composed by Michel Legrand, the libretto was written by Didier van Cauwelaert. It was translated into German in 2009 by Edith Jeske and had its German premiere in April 2012.
Works
- Le Puits aux images (1932, dt The images Fountain 1963)
- La jument verte (1933, dt The green mare, from the French by Walter Widmer, 1952) ( novel)
- La belle image (1941, dt The beautiful madness 1949)
- Le confort intellectuel (1950, dt The intellectual comfort 2013)
- Les quatre vérités ( Drama 1954)
- Les oiseaux de lune (1955, dt The Moon Birds 1963)
- Les Tiroirs de l' inconnu (1960, dt The drawers of the Unknown 1962 Kiepenheuer & Petrovich ) (novel)
- Lousiane - Pièce en quatre actes (1961 )