This volume contains Marcel Aymé’s most distinctive short stories. Aymé’s heroes are everyday people whose predestined course is disrupted by an extraordinary world-changing event. Their lives are then transformed and they themselves find the opportunity to manifest the part of themselves that until that moment had remained hermetically sealed inside them…
Marcel Aymé was born in 1902 in Joigny, in the Yonne region of France, and spent his childhood in the French countryside. He later settled in Paris, where, after working in a variety of professions, he devoted himself to literary pursuits. His body of work includes novels, short-story collections, plays, and translations.
He died in Paris in 1967. His short-story collection The Man Who Walked Through Walls is available in Greek from Aiolos Publishers.