The man with the little dog

Description

Een 48-jarige man wil na zijn verblijf in de gevangenis een nieuw leven opbouwen en vooral met rust gelaten worden.

Description

Félix Allard is growing old alone. He acquires Bib, a small mutt poodle, at the pound. He talks to him, takes him for long walks. A clever animal, Bib can play dead, close doors, and do back somersaults. He may even once have been a circus dog. Regarding the world with the cold eye of a camera, the old man remembers, takes stock of his life -- as he prepares to leave it. But at Sacré-Coeur, on a flight of steps in a park overlooking Paris, he passes a couple: the man a dwarf with a hairless, monstrous head, the woman a cripple wiht her legs in braces. They are a couple radiant with love for each other and full of joy in the anticipation of the famous view of the city. Suddenly Monsieur Félis is no longer sure of his detachment. Emotions surface, troubling scenes from the past: lust, pride, jealousy, prison... Here is a superb study of how the disease of egoism can eat away at a man's happiness. Simenon presents, as few writers can, both the bleakness and the poetry of human existence.

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Other Editions

• The man with the little dogHardcoverHarcourt Brace Jovanovich1989-01-01
• L' homme au petit chienPresses de la Cité1964-01-01
• L' homme au petit chienPresses de la cité1966-01-01
• The Man With the Little DogHardcoverRandom House Value Publishing1992-12-01
• Der Mann mit dem kleinen Hund.PaperbackDiogenes Verlag1998-09-01
• L'homme au petit chienPresses de la Cité2011-01-01