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Marcelle Andre Ayme
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29 March 1902 - 14 October 1967
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France, 29.3.1902 - 14.10.1967 Born in Juani. He tried to become a journalist, then turned to literature. Eme's early novels - "Brühlbois" (1926), "Empty Field" (1933, Theophrastus-Renodo Prize), "The Green Mare" (1938) - are "comedies from rural life". In later novels - "Dragon" (1943), "Time of the schoolboys" (1946) - the natural "Gallic wit" of the author is combined with the mysticism and surrealism of the plot. The same combination of humor and mysticism is characteristic of the small prose
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France, 29.3.1902 - 14.10.1967
Born in Juani. He tried to become a journalist, then turned to literature. Eme's early novels - "Brühlbois" (1926), "Empty Field" (1933, Theophrastus-Renodo Prize), "The Green Mare" (1938) - are "comedies from rural life". In later novels - "Dragon" (1943), "Time of the schoolboys" (1946) - the natural "Gallic wit" of the author is combined with the mysticism and surrealism of the plot. The same combination of humor and mysticism is characteristic of the small prose of Eme (stories “Dwarf”, “Man who could pass through walls”, etc.). In the late 1940s, he debuted in drama with absurdist plays Lucienne and the Butcher (1947) and Clarambad (1950). Eme’s plays were designed in the style of the “theater of the absurd”; as for prose, especially small works, criticism called Marcel Eme a continuation of the traditions of Lafontaine and Charles Perrault.