Beautiful Image by Marcel Aymé

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PUBLICATION August 2008
ISBN 978 1 901285 67 3
Fiction 232 pages £10.00
Cover image by Valentine Hugo


"An indispensable storyteller" Le Nouvel Observateur


About the book
Raoul Cérusier, an entirely ordinary man with a common physique, lives a happy life. His charming wife has given him two beautiful children and he is satisfied with his job. One day, somewhere between home and the government office he is visiting to obtain a document, his appearance changes and this new jeune premier look brings Raoul to confront his true nature.

"In a period of moral uncertainty and literary fad and flux, the discerning reader knows that with each new book Marcel Aymé will have again produced several hours of unpretentious fun and escape into unreality" The French Review (1954)

"Aymé has long been noted as one of the more important writers of modern French literature (...) for his humour and satire as well as for his sense of the fantastic" The Council for the Literature of the Fantastic - University of Rhode Island

About the author
MARCEL AYME was born in Joigny, France in 1902. Following his studies at the College de Dole he moved to Paris and worked, most notably, as a journalist. Aymé was able to dedicate himself entirely to literature following the success of The Green Mare, a dark satire on sexuality published in 1933.

Following the German occupation and the French resistance, Aymé’s ironic, and often disillusioned perception of the state of affairs in France during this period, produced a body of work that is still placed at the forefront of twentieth century French literature.
Marcel Aymé died in Paris in 1967.

"Marcel Aymé is the French writer par excellence" Lire

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