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A review by ecleirs23
The Train by Georges Simenon
4.0
A cute little novella again. Originally in French, but translation reads perfect ! A World War 2 incidences. A married man, separated from his 7 month pregnant wife and 4 years old daughter ... A train journey in the train with its course unknown, the train that de-consoles Marcel because on that train it is no longer he who has to drive. The train that leads to a no-man's land. And the train leads to place ( and the situation too ) where the rules are gone and it is possible to abandon oneself (to primal instincts, emotions, life) and abandonment (of the affections, of the family members, of the conventions) is possible.
He founds a random girl in that train freight, named Anna and there starts ‘outside ordinary life and its conventions', an affair. The affair is justified as the shock from leaving their normal lives behind. It may not have been acceptable under normal circumstances, but the circumstances were far from normal.
Well, pretty unusual story and it leaves yuh all melancholic !
He founds a random girl in that train freight, named Anna and there starts ‘outside ordinary life and its conventions', an affair. The affair is justified as the shock from leaving their normal lives behind. It may not have been acceptable under normal circumstances, but the circumstances were far from normal.
Well, pretty unusual story and it leaves yuh all melancholic !