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# The Train (Neversink) Paperback – July 19, 2011

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    Strange Interlude
  

*by E***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2011*

Marcel Feron, the narrator of THE TRAIN, had a difficult early life. The boy Marcel, who was born in 1908, sees his mother, head shaven, driven in disgrace from their village in the Ardennes, probably for consorting with Germans during World War I. Meanwhile, his father, a reliable man before the war, returns from the front lines as an emotionally erratic alcoholic. Finally, Marcel acquires tuberculosis and lives his teenage years in a sanatorium, where he receives institutional care.In THE TRAIN, Simenon follows Marcel in 1940, after he, his wife, and daughter are evacuated from their village following the Nazi invasion in France. Almost immediately, the family divides and Marcel, shuttling toward the south of France in a crowded boxcar, gradually assembles a new and genuine emotional life that centers on Anna, another refugee. In THE TRAIN, Simenon shows Marcel's new emotional life gradually emerge, as well as the choices Marcel makes as developments challenge his marriage and impassive personality.What I liked the most and the least about THE TRAIN are the same thing--Simenon's terse style. On one hand, this style--many paragraphs are single sentences--produces a disciplined narrative, with the stages of Marcel's new emotional life emerging with both clarity and credibility. On the other, Marcel's laconic voice offers little reading pleasure. That voice suits Marcel, who is conventional and emotionally guarded. But it has no flash or flourish. (Still, this efficient style is the one to employ if a writer's nature pushes him/her to produce 200 books.)THE TRAIN is the sort of novel that converts into an involving movie, since its story is linear and touching while its prose does not burden a director with impossible-to-capture literary nuance. Rounded up to four stars.

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    Dissonant Symphony
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2017*

This is another of Simenon’s ROMANS DURS, a term that translates roughly to “psychological novels” or “harrowing novels” in English.  I found it to be harrowing because of the juxtaposition of deaths by Nazi fighter jets, people acting like animals on the train heading out of the war zone, the unfaithful husband and father and the missing pregnant wife with the little daughter with her dolly--heartbreaking.  The fears of the protagonist may have given way to the thrill of liberation as war allowed him to break out of his rut, but the rest of us couldn’t stop thinking about what was going on in the background with the pregnant wife and her cute little daughter who might be anywhere, at the mercy of anyone and might even be dead.  There was a constant tension.  It was like a symphony with a lot of dissonance.It was interesting and a little odd that the train ride became like a surreal experience.  After all, there must have been people on the train from his hometown who could have informed on the protagonist about his lack of fidelity.  Simenon dismisses that.  Being on that train is like being set down in the middle of a distant foreign country.  Apparently, things that happened on the train stayed on the train.It’s also interesting and a little odd that of the two ROMANS DURS of Simenon that I’ve read, wives and children occupy about the same status in the lives of these protagonists as furniture.Despite these misgivings, it was interesting and enjoyable reading.Again, I wouldn’t recommend this as a gift for the kids.3 stars

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    Simenon in Top Form
  

*by J***K on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2014*

I never cease to be amazed by Simenon. I've lost track of the number of novels I've read by him.What shocks me  is they have all been pretty good and I've barely scratched the surface of his body of work.This novel reiterates a common theme of Simenon's .You take an ordinary , even plodding man, and you unmoor him.You watch him become someone else.The plasticity or unfixed nature of the human personality clearly interested Simenon quite a bit.Here WW2 winds up being an opportunity for the narrator, Marcel ,to be another man.Yet, he is is this other man for only a few weeks and much as he enjoys it, he always intends to go back to his old life.Which he does quite effortlessly.The novel is his reflection on this brief moment in his life which he readily concedes was the most interesting part of his life.The novel works , in large part , because this is shown rather matter of factly.There is no high drama and very little romance.The author captures the strangeness of everyday people with remarkable fluency.We are all Martians at times.

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