(Drivebycuriosity) - A man meets a woman. A story told millions of times. Frédéric Dard presents a very special version in his novel "The Executioner Weeps" ( amazon).
In the beginning it reminded me of Nabokov, but later it turned more and more into a Hitchcock mystery. The plot, told in first person by an French artist and painter, is set in sunny Spain, but it gets darker and darker (this is a spoiler free blog).
I enjoyed the psychological & analytical musings, the humorous descriptions of the landscape around Barcelona, the architecture and the locals, and I felt with the narrator. Recommended!
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