When you read two or three Simenon novels in quick succession, the author’s oft-quoted statement that his “big novel is the mosaic of all [his] small novels” takes on greater resonance. Viewed together his romans durs map out of universe of drab, unremarkable lives; of little people going about their business, tortured by petty resentments, … Continue reading The Man with the Little Dog
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One Way Out
In their most passionate moments . . . her body was taught and quivering like a stretched wire, her pupils rigid as a sleepwalkers. One Way Out tells the story of a doomed relationship between Bachelin, a hot-headed young clerk, and Juliette, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a comfortably bourgeois cashier in the provincial town of … Continue reading One Way Out
Graeme Macrae Burnet 