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Across Paris and Other Stories
BOOKS BY MARCEL AYME: ACROSS PARIS
(short stories)
THE GREEN MARE THE SECRET STREAM
[La Jumeut Vcrte)
[Le Mouliti de
THE SECOND FACE
Sowdine)
{La Belle Image)
THE MIRACULOUS BARBER
(Travelingue)
THE BARKEEP OF ble'mont
THE TRANSIENT HOUR
la
[Uranus)
{Lc Chemin des Ecoliers)
FOR CHILDREN: THE MAGIC PICTURES and THE WONDERFUL FARM {Les Contes du Chat Perche)
Across Paris
AND OTHER STORIES hy Marcel
Ayme
Translated from the French and with an Introduction by
Norman Denny
m t3 HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS New
York
ACROSS PARIS AND OTHER STORIES Copyright 1932, 1934, 1938, 1943, 1947, 1950 by Librairie GalUmard Printed in the United States of America
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rights in this
book are reserved.
No part
of the hook may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written per-
mission except in the case of brief quotations
embodied
in aitical articles
and reviews. For
information address Harper
49 East 33rd
Street,
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& Brothers
York 16, N. Y.
Library of Congress catalog card number: 58-12467
The following
is
a
list
of the volumes of Marcel Ayme's
short stories, with their publication dates and the
of the
stories
appearing in
Le
this selection:
Puits
aux Images
{Paris igj2)
THE PICTURE-WELL
Le Nain {Paris 1934)
THE DWARF A ROLL OF DAUGHTERS Derriere
Chez Martin
{Paris 1938)
RUE DB L'ivANGILE
MARTIN THE NOVELIST Le
Passe-Muraille {Paris 1943)
THE SEVEN-LEAGUE BOOTS THE WALKER-THROUGH-WALLS LEGEND OF POLDEVIA
Le Vin
de Paris
{Paris 1947)
THE WINE OF PARIS THE STATE OF GRACE
DERMUCHE ACROSS PARIS
En
Arriere
{Paris 1950)
Enghsh
titles
Contents
Introduction
I
2 •3.
Rue
by Norman Denny
de TEvangile
page ix
i?
y
The Wine of Paris M?.rtin the
36
@
Novehst
The Dwarf 5 The State of Grace C\ The Seven-League Boots 7 Dermuche
80
4
8
\
A Roll of Daughters
P JJO 143
""
153
10
The Walker-Through-Walls The Picture-Well
11
Legend of Poldevia
192
12
Across Paris
203
vu
167 179
Introduction Unlike the novel, the
of short
collection
never
stories is
conceived with an eye to the hlurb. Each of its separate pieces represents the idea
and mood of a moment, and
it
not
is
possible to run up for the use of reviewers a very brief,
very
weighty summary which will save them the trouble of reading the book.
THUS Marcel Aym^, in the signed blurb which he ran up ('trousser'
is
his
own word)
for the
most recent of the
volumes of short stories from which this selection has been made. But although the blurb amounts to an apology six
for writing short stories at aU, since this (says
longer done by the best writers,
it
hurdle that h