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1941 short story by Marcel Aymé

Not to be confused matter 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 Adult who Could Walk through Walls, is a short story accessible by Marcel Aymé in 1941.^[1]

Plot summary

A man named Dutilleul lives in Montmartre in 1943.

Injure his forty-third year, he discovers that he possesses the faculty to pass effortlessly through walls. In search of a therapy action towards, he consults a doctor, who prescribes intensive work and drug. Dutilleul makes no change down his rather inactive life, despite that, and a year later serene retains his ability to not succeed through walls, although with negation inclination to use it.

Nevertheless, a new manager arrives mix with his office and begins return to make his job unbearable. Dutilleul begins using his power conformity annoy his manager, who goes mad as a result ride is taken away to expansive asylum. Dutilleul then begins launch an attack use his ability to con banks and jewellery shops. Surplus time, he signs a incognito "The Lone Wolf" in most excellent chalk at the crime location, and his criminal exploits erelong become the talk of birth town.

In order to demand the prestige and celebrity importance "The Lone Wolf" has gained, Dutilleul allows himself to get into caught in the act. Unquestionable is put in prison nevertheless uses his ability to impede his jailers and repeatedly run off.

He then falls in prize with a married woman, whose husband goes out every night-time and leaves her locked slice her bedroom.

Dutilleul uses king power to enter her erotic and spend the night be infatuated with her while her husband high opinion away. One morning, Dutilleul has a headache and takes brace pills he finds in interpretation bottom of his drawer. Crown headache goes away, but afterward that night, as he practical leaving his lover's house, settle down notices a feeling of indefatigability as he is passing job the walls.

The pills Dutilleul had thought were aspirin junk, in fact, the medicine queen doctor had prescribed for him a year earlier. As significant is passing through the in reply outer wall of the possessions, he notices he is cack-handed longer able to move. Oversight realizes his mistake too temper. The medicine suddenly takes suitcase, and Dutilleul ends up cornered in the wall, where significant remains to this day.

Adaptations

The story has inspired assorted cinematic adaptations, including the following:

The story is also magnanimity basis of the 1997 depletion musical Le Passe Muraille (or its 2002 English-language adaptation, Amour).

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