The man who walked through walls

Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate measures - he develops a taste for transmural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime?

Aymé is considered one of the great French writers of the twentieth century and this collection features his most celebrated short story 'The Man Who Walked through Walls', along with nine other wonderful tales. In each story, anarchic comedy is arrested by moments of pathos, only to descend into anarchy and hilarity once more.