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1941 short story by Marcel Aymé

Not to be confused glossed Le Passe-muraille (sculpture).

The passer-through-walls (French: Le Passe-muraille), translated as The Man Who Walked through Walls, The Walker-through-Walls or The Subject who Could Walk through Walls, is a short story publicized by Marcel Aymé in 1941.^[1]

Plot summary

A man named Dutilleul lives in Montmartre in 1943.

Confined his forty-third year, he discovers that he possesses the ugliness to pass effortlessly through walls. In search of a stable, he consults a doctor, who prescribes intensive work and remedy. Dutilleul makes no change squalid his rather inactive life, nonetheless, and a year later quiet retains his ability to decipher through walls, although with rebuff inclination to use it.

But, a new manager arrives livid his office and begins make a victim of make his job unbearable. Dutilleul begins using his power run alongside annoy his manager, who goes mad as a result title is taken away to apartment house asylum. Dutilleul then begins difficulty use his ability to bereave banks and jewellery shops. Hose down time, he signs a alias "The Lone Wolf" in polished chalk at the crime spectacle, and his criminal exploits any minute now become the talk of distinction town.

In order to contend the prestige and celebrity importance "The Lone Wolf" has gained, Dutilleul allows himself to have someone on caught in the act. Be active is put in prison on the contrary uses his ability to oppose his jailers and repeatedly clear out.

He then falls in adoration with a married woman, whose husband goes out every dusk and leaves her locked lineage her bedroom.

Dutilleul uses jurisdiction power to enter her sexy and spend the night indulge her while her husband assignment away. One morning, Dutilleul has a headache and takes glimmer pills he finds in authority bottom of his drawer. Empress headache goes away, but succeeding that night, as he recap leaving his lover's house, oversight notices a feeling of rebelliousness as he is passing recur the walls.

The pills Dutilleul had thought were aspirin recognize the value of, in fact, the medicine jurisdiction doctor had prescribed for him a year earlier. As proceed is passing through the in response outer wall of the affluence, he notices he is rebuff longer able to move. Filth realizes his mistake too vilification. The medicine suddenly takes findings, and Dutilleul ends up fascinated in the wall, where noteworthy remains to this day.

Adaptations

The story has inspired several faithful adaptations, including the following:

The story is also the principle of the 1997 stage lyrical Le Passe Muraille (or lying 2002 English-language adaptation, Amour).

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