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la_cantina_dei_libri_0's review against another edition
4.0
Simenon ha la capacità di descrivere la psicologia dei personaggi senza dover elencare le caratteristiche in modo diretto. È pazzesco! Narra in modo semplice quello che sta succedendo accompagnando il lettore in ogni singola scena senza far perdere un attimo l'attenzione. È bravura e arte.
Conosciamo l'avvocato Lucien con una vita abbastanza turbolenta già dall'infanzia e tuttora deve fronteggiare una situazione scomoda: la giovane Yvette lo ha letteralmente stregato sin dal loro primo incontro. Da quel giorno ha il bisogno morboso di sentirla, averla accanto e sapere dov'è quando non si possono vedere. Si percepisce questa necessità mentale e fisica del protagonista, che si destreggia tra lavoro e moglie – a conoscenza di tutto – con fatica. Mentre è la moglie a tenere in pugno il marito, caso differenze è Lucien che controlla Yvette e forse è anche questo un fattore che lo affascina.
Lucien si trova a scrivere una pratica personale tutto quello che gli sta succedendo, in caso di disgrazia confessa. E probabilmente il caso si rivela con il colpo di scena finale che chiude quasi del tutto il libro.
Lo stile di scrittura di Simenon è magistrale. Riesce a coinvolgere il lettore fin dalla prima frase e con un ritmo incalzante lo porterà a stupirsi fino alla fine. Lucien è un uomo come tutti, con doveri e desideri a cui far fronte. Il lettore si ritroverà incastrato tra le righe e i pensieri del protagonista finendo a provare gli stessi dolori emotivi.
In caso di disgrazia è un libro perfetto per tutti quelli che vogliono leggere anche qualcosa con una trama apparentemente semplice, ma ricca di emozioni umane.
Conosciamo l'avvocato Lucien con una vita abbastanza turbolenta già dall'infanzia e tuttora deve fronteggiare una situazione scomoda: la giovane Yvette lo ha letteralmente stregato sin dal loro primo incontro. Da quel giorno ha il bisogno morboso di sentirla, averla accanto e sapere dov'è quando non si possono vedere. Si percepisce questa necessità mentale e fisica del protagonista, che si destreggia tra lavoro e moglie – a conoscenza di tutto – con fatica. Mentre è la moglie a tenere in pugno il marito, caso differenze è Lucien che controlla Yvette e forse è anche questo un fattore che lo affascina.
Lucien si trova a scrivere una pratica personale tutto quello che gli sta succedendo, in caso di disgrazia confessa. E probabilmente il caso si rivela con il colpo di scena finale che chiude quasi del tutto il libro.
Lo stile di scrittura di Simenon è magistrale. Riesce a coinvolgere il lettore fin dalla prima frase e con un ritmo incalzante lo porterà a stupirsi fino alla fine. Lucien è un uomo come tutti, con doveri e desideri a cui far fronte. Il lettore si ritroverà incastrato tra le righe e i pensieri del protagonista finendo a provare gli stessi dolori emotivi.
In caso di disgrazia è un libro perfetto per tutti quelli che vogliono leggere anche qualcosa con una trama apparentemente semplice, ma ricca di emozioni umane.
blackoxford's review against another edition
3.0
Fake Purpose
The usual sordid tale by Simenon: Middle-aged man engages in tragic sexual interlude with disturbed, young tearaway. The lives of several people are adversely affected or worse. The man claims to submit himself to rigorous self-examination in a diary of events, which he hopes will uncover the real reasons for his behaviour. Of course, his recorded thoughts are mere rationalisation.
Although the son of a laundress, Lucien considers himself a gentleman. Aged 45, he has triumphed in the legal circles of Paris and has a reputation for resolving hopeless criminal cases for the benefit of his clients. He lives in the best neighbourhood, dines with senior ministers, has a trophy wife (taken from his mentor and benefactor), a chauffeur, and as many extra-marital affairs as he can handle sensibly.
Lucien works hard during the day, even on the weekends, and is engaged in complex criminal activity as a sideline to his legal work. His wife hosts dinners two or three times a week. They frequently attend soirées and social events that keep them out until three or four in the morning. But he still has enough energy to visit his mistresses afterwards. This is what he himself calls “an intense life.”
Despite its pace, life is manageable, that is until he starts an affair with a young, manipulative client. At that point he comes “under a sign,” he becomes a marked man. Other men, similarly marked, can see it on him, in him. They constitute a sort of club among the Parisian elite. Yvette is a hapless trouble-maker but he is obsessed by her for that very reason. Lucien’s relationship with her is one of “pure sex”. “She tells lies. She's deceitful. She puts on acts.” But she is completely submissive to him. He has complete charge over her.
His course is suicidal; and he knows it: “My first worry is that my carcass may not hold out.” He’s risking everything for this woman, no not for this woman but for this relationship. She happens to be simply a component of the relationship which conforms with his fantasies. He perceives his affair as a revolt against a “controlling wife,” whom he has decided to abandon.
He is without remorse for the consequences of any of his actions and blames his wife. He thinks he is being brutally honest. But he is a cad, a crook, and a narcissist. This, of course, is what we do as human beings - make up purpose after the fact and claim it as mitigation for our stupidities. And lawyers, like Lucien, make a living from it.
The usual sordid tale by Simenon: Middle-aged man engages in tragic sexual interlude with disturbed, young tearaway. The lives of several people are adversely affected or worse. The man claims to submit himself to rigorous self-examination in a diary of events, which he hopes will uncover the real reasons for his behaviour. Of course, his recorded thoughts are mere rationalisation.
Although the son of a laundress, Lucien considers himself a gentleman. Aged 45, he has triumphed in the legal circles of Paris and has a reputation for resolving hopeless criminal cases for the benefit of his clients. He lives in the best neighbourhood, dines with senior ministers, has a trophy wife (taken from his mentor and benefactor), a chauffeur, and as many extra-marital affairs as he can handle sensibly.
Lucien works hard during the day, even on the weekends, and is engaged in complex criminal activity as a sideline to his legal work. His wife hosts dinners two or three times a week. They frequently attend soirées and social events that keep them out until three or four in the morning. But he still has enough energy to visit his mistresses afterwards. This is what he himself calls “an intense life.”
Despite its pace, life is manageable, that is until he starts an affair with a young, manipulative client. At that point he comes “under a sign,” he becomes a marked man. Other men, similarly marked, can see it on him, in him. They constitute a sort of club among the Parisian elite. Yvette is a hapless trouble-maker but he is obsessed by her for that very reason. Lucien’s relationship with her is one of “pure sex”. “She tells lies. She's deceitful. She puts on acts.” But she is completely submissive to him. He has complete charge over her.
His course is suicidal; and he knows it: “My first worry is that my carcass may not hold out.” He’s risking everything for this woman, no not for this woman but for this relationship. She happens to be simply a component of the relationship which conforms with his fantasies. He perceives his affair as a revolt against a “controlling wife,” whom he has decided to abandon.
He is without remorse for the consequences of any of his actions and blames his wife. He thinks he is being brutally honest. But he is a cad, a crook, and a narcissist. This, of course, is what we do as human beings - make up purpose after the fact and claim it as mitigation for our stupidities. And lawyers, like Lucien, make a living from it.
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