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Novels # 30: Three Rooms in Manhattan in New York


some previous post I mentioned that some authors would have appeared several times in the blog with their works, New York.
A bit for luck, a bit of respect for one of my favorite writers, the first to give an encore is the same as post # 1 : Georges Simenon (1903-1989).
Three Rooms in Manhattan is one of the novels without Maigret Simenon that in the postwar years, like many European intellectuals, moved to the United States where he met Denyse Ouimet, his second wife. And it is precisely the theme of love novel, with its mysteries sometimes more complicated investigations by Commissioner French.
The protagonists, Francois and Kay, no longer young, no more carefree, seductive but not beautiful, cross their loneliness through the streets of Manhattan and deepen their knowledge of emotional outbursts, reluctance and jealousy, the song juke box, and small denominations rough tenderness.
to read this book you learn just one thing that every visitor to New York should know that to fully enjoy this city you must walk, and a lot: "And there they were again on the street was where the ultimately felt at home. Outside, in fact, changed mood, found themselves automatically miraculous lightness that they had discovered by chance ".
is true that the iconography of the city in motion often refers to images of taxi and subway, but the emotions, thoughts, discovery the great city and of themselves is step by step, literally and tirelessly, as do the two lovers of the novel, that stops are a hotel room, the house where she lives and the one where he lives (the three rooms of the title).
Passion attracts them and repels them, the bite of the past, of old lovers, friends, cynical, existential test more difficult designed to gather around the protagonists suffer, cry, react (not always well) that causes confusion to love.
But the streets of New York know how to be comforting: "I took a taxi. They walked on. As if that was their fate, as if they knew or could not stop." How will Simenon walked to New York, with his pipe, his eyes attentive to people, their faces, their gestures, but also skyscrapers and bridges: "He crossed the Greenwich Village towards the dock and bridge Brooklyn, and was the first time you walk on the giant iron bridge. "
How will it end this crazy love ? Well I certainly do not have to be to reveal it, but reading a novel by Simenon in love, the perfect setting aside the gears of the clockwork plots of his yellow is an exciting and surprising, which reveals the passionate side of a master of intrigue. And all this takes place in New York is certainly not a case.
Three Rooms in Manhattan , Georges Simenon, Adelphi, 1998