To the red donkey
To the red donkey (original title L'Âne Rouge ) is a novel by Georges Simenon . The work belonging to the series of “Non-Maigret” novels and stories about the life and experiences of a young reporter for a French provincial newspaper was created in autumn 1932 in Marsilly near La Rochelle (on the La Richardière estate) and was published on August 16 1933 at Fayard. In the German translation by Ursula Vogel, the novel first appeared in 1994 under the title Zum Roten Esel bei Diogenes .
action
Jean Cholet, a young journalist with the Gazette in Nantes , still lives with his parents, a family of small employees who are dutiful and humble. When he first attended an official banquet one evening and drinks excessively, he provoked a scandal; shortly afterwards, after being kicked out, he ends up in a cabaret, the L'Ane-Rouge . There he is in the company of a certain Speelman, a winning person who impresses the young man. Attracted by the atmosphere of the pub, Cholet regularly visits the artist milieu and gets to know the young Lulu, who soon becomes his lover. Through his escapades, Jean emancipates himself from his petty-bourgeois parental home; his mother appears to him as an eternally lewd victim. The audacity leads to Jean becoming more and more addicted to alcohol; the first debts have already been made. In order to live out his new feeling of strength, he lets himself be persuaded to steal registry office documents, which Speelman is interested in, who works on him with his pride. Eventually he neglects his work, he feels compelled to make use of lies in order to get money, but then he decides to put an end to mediocre existence. He moves to Paris; his father's unexpected death leads him to mistakenly believe that his father's boss will help him. This mistake triggers one final crisis for him before Jean Cholet takes his place again in society and henceforth avoids L'Âne Rouge .
background
With L'Âne Rouge , Simenon processed autobiographical details from his literary beginnings as a journalist in Liège .
Simenon had the manuscript of the novel auctioned in 1943 for the benefit of French prisoners of war.
expenditure
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L'Âne rouge . In: Tout Simenon Tome 18 (Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1988–1993)
- L'Âne rouge . In: Romans durs 1931-1934
- L'Âne rouge . Le Livre de Poche n ° 14314
- To the red donkey . Novel. German by Ursula Vogel. Zurich: Diogenes Verlag 1994 ISBN 3257226292
Web links
- L'Âne Rouge at Tout Simenon
- Les illusions perdues in Le Soir (2003)
- Bibliographical information on the novel L'Âne rouge
- WorldCat entry
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.association-jacques-riviere-alain-fournier.com/reperage/simenon/notice_horsmaigret/note_horsmaigret_Coup%20de%20lune.htm
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
