I first learned about the prolific French novelist from Akira Kurosawa who said that his hardboiled film Stray Dog was modeled after a Georges Simenon detective novel. Since then he has been praised by writers I admire from Truman Capote to Paul Theroux. The fact that this, The Blue Room (1960), is only my second novel assures me that there will be many more opportunities to savor his psychologically dense prose in the future. This story recounts how the protagonist had arrived in the position of sitting trial for murder after ending an illicit affair with a former school mate in a small provincial French town. A short but compelling tale of passion and murder.
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