The Blue Room, by Georges Simenon
The psychological drama was first published in 1955 in French, then in English in 1964. On the first page it begins with “Andrée naked still on the ravaged bed, her legs apart, a few drops of semen clinging to the dark hair, shadowy between her thighs.” In their love-making, she had bitten Tony’s lip, hard enough to make it bleed. Oh, those crazy sexy French! It’s in the “blue room,” at his brothers hotel. We see that he’s either reminiscing or telling a psychiatrist and the Examining Magistrate his story under interrogation. He’s under arrest, for what we don’t yet know. Tony and Andrée are both married to other people and they’ve secretly met like this eight times. The critical questions are less from the magistrate and the psychiatrist, although they certainly help the story move along. Rather, they are the questions Andrée asks Tony during this tryst, fed slowly by the author:
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