That’s what she is! Sixteen years old and got herself a baby already.” She gets off the bus, and Jean gets off at the next stop, walks back, and helps her carry the incubator.Īs they return to the widow’s farm, she notices her niece Felicie walking away from the widow’s house with some ham from off the widow’s table. She makes eye contact with Jean on the bus and sizes him up immediately. The widow is aged forty-five, “short and broad, rather plump”. The widow Tati Corderc, a farm lady, is also on the bus bringing home an incubator for raising young chickens on the farm.
Since the bus is going to Montlucon, he will go there. Armand near Paris gets on a red bus, standing room only. The refrain of ‘The Widow’, a sentence that is used repeatedly in the novella, is “Every person condemned to death shall be decapitated.”įirst, I will describe the opening of the story which sets the stage for the later awful events.Ī young man named Jean walking in St. This is noir fiction with a hard-on, not a detective story, but rather a story about some nasty people in the French countryside. ‘The Widow’ is a tough little French psychological novella, one of which George Simenon called his “romans durs”. ‘The Widow’ by Georges Simenon (1942) – 152 pages Translated from the French by John Petrie
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