Simenon is a form of sober highly concentrated: a father in his forties began to write his sixteen year old son to tell him his story a tragedy that took place in his youth in 1928 in La Rochelle "if I you have described in detail the time of my life, this is for you to know my state of mind at the time she would change. I was in life without being there, like borrowed time. I felt no ties no reason to do this or that. "this drama behind the whole narrative and it is only in the last few pages we will learn what is this drama that forever changed the narrator and that drives him to want to confess to his son and so he tells his family the high bourgeoisie, his wife with whom he never was love but a good deal -in any case the first weeks .. .-, its actuary work (= professional responsible for determining the amount of insurance premiums by estimating the financial impact of a risk with probability calculations), the war ... it expresses a rare understanding of what adolescence and life in general, but if he can write, he can not say directly to his son. There is always the gross non-Simenon style with sometimes a few sound bites "You and I would sit in front of appetizers and waited in silence, without touching it, his eyes fixed on a triangular patch of sun that was sparkle as the tablecloth. " "(...) A was hot and tasty." no unnecessary frills, almost too dry sometimes, but always speaking. Each time I enjoy (re) enter his world so special.
