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The Secret Stream

by Marcel Aymé

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Ayant accompagné son ami Buq dans l'ascension du clocher de la cathé-drale, le jeune Antoine se trouve à point nommé pour apercevoir à cinq heures sonnantes le notaire, maître Marguet, en train de fermer la fenêtre d'une mansarde dans sa belle maison au fronton Renaissance. L'action lui paraît fort naturelle jusqu'au moment où il apprend qu'à cet instant précis et dans cet endroit même a été perpétré un crime dont on accuse le nommé Troussequin. L'innocence du pauvre hère éclatera dès qu'on saura la chose, c'est clair mais pas tellement facile à réaliser. Deux jours passent avant qu'Antoine se confie à son père et, d'un coeur allégé, entreprenne avec Buq et le grand Pucelet l'exploration de la rivière la Sourdine, dans le quartier de la Malleboine. Le père d'Antoine s'étant déchargé de la confidence dans l'oreille du maire, Troussequin risquerait fort de finir au bagne si le hasard ne mettait le grand Pucelet sur le chemin de maître Marguet comme il y avait tais Antoine et si le brigadier Maillard, désireux de se revan-cher sur le maire de certaine brimade, n'allait chercher midi à quatorze heures sur les bords de la Sourdine... pour la totale déconfiture des notables et l'une des meilleures réussites satiriques de Marcel Aymé, maître conteur pince-sans-rire.
  PierreYvesMERCIER | Feb 19, 2012 |
part of book project. spoilers could be present. French. It seemed very French. Part of the plot, with the old guy who won't sell his land because he wants the city to appropriate it, even though the city isn't going to & wouldn't pay him nearly as much if it did, seemed very cultural-based, in how the city works, in the politics of French cities, etc. The politics too, the radicals, and the communists; it was hard to know what any of that actually meant in the French society of the time. Meanwhile the story was certainly psychologically complex, and the transformation of the boys was interesting, as they become a group that can play together & enjoy themselves at the end. I wasn't sure if he treated masturbation as a pathology; it is a driving force in the one boy's life; getting caught endangers him and the result is that he stops and joins society?
  franoscar | Jun 12, 2009 |
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