National Review, October 7th, 1991
MARCEL AYME (1902-1967) may not have been one of the greatest French writers of this century, but he certainly was one of the most diverse, most prolific, and most charming. He wrote in every genre from fiction to poetry, essay to children's fantasy, drama to jounalism. Some of his novels, stories, and plays are very near top-grade, and there was always, even in his harshest works, a lightness of touch, a floating irony that was Ayme's hallmark, and very probably one reason for his not being more widely appreciated. The other was that, though never an actual Nazi or Petainist, Ayme did contr...
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