LEADER 03529cam a2200385Ia 4500001 39880 005 20240621170333.0 008 991104s1997 xx r 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)42764715 035 39880 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PQ2601.Y5 |bH67 1997 100 1 Horn, Jonathan, |d1982- 245 10 Writing through the occupation : |bMarcel Aymsʹe's Le-Passe-muraille / |cby Jonathan Horn. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1997. 300 iv, 177 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama, 1997. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177). 520 Published in 1943, Le passe-muraille stands as one of Marcel Ayme's most important literary contributions, especially in light of its historical context. The ten stories of the collection, many of which feature Ayme's trademark strategy, that of blending the fantastic and the real, translate the profound ambiguities of feeling among the French living under the occupation while offering his readers a space of ultimate freedom within the world of literature. Ayme is at once a journalist who chronicles and reports, and a storyteller who conjures through the power of the imagination. These pieces, often set in Ayme's own Montmartre, are populated by ordinary people who find themselves within extraordinary circumstances, just as the ordinary people of France found themselves within the extraordinary circumstances of the occupation: a low-level functionary discovers he can walk through walls, a housewife becomes a self-cloning pleasure-seeker, a man who ultimately cannot escape the war via a leap in time, an entire population whose very lives are rationed. Like Maurice Blanchot, whose political voice migrated completely into the world of literature just prior to the war, Ayme, no longer able to exploit a free press, took his journalism into the space of fiction and reported from there. But more importantly, he acted from there, inviting his readers to engage with him in a phosphorescence of living History whereby they "plot together" to achieve a conjural control through a process that restores freedom to a population immured by the intense ambiguities symptomatic of the occupation. Ayme acted in the world of literature in a manner that forms a bridge between Sartre's notion of the responsibility to act and the surrealist vision of acting through the imagination. The stories of Le passe-muraille offer a space of fluidity which is a detour, ultimately delivering the reader back to the world, perhaps better able to cope with the never-ending dance with death. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1999. |e23 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Aymé, Marcel, |d1902-1967. |tPasse-muraille. 600 10 Aymé, Marcel, |d1902-1967 |xCriticism and interpretation. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=736879281&sid=135&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib39880/9821541.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 E0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPQ2601.Y5 H67 1997 852 |bwww 852 |bebook