The Inquisitory (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Pinget
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: New Novel
- Time of Work: c. 1960
- Setting: In and near Sirancy, France
- Genres: Long fiction, New Novel
- Subjects: 1960’s, France or French people, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Adultery, Missing persons, Servants
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
The interrogator, a criminal investigator of indeterminate age and sex. The interrogator is patient; thorough; obsessed with the details of the possible crime to whose investigation he or she has been assigned; quick-minded, able to remember the smallest details of the affidavit being recorded by a secretary nearby; particularly attentive to information of a perverse or sexual nature; and terse in the wording of questions, possibly simply because they must be written down (the subject of the “grilling” is deaf). The interrogator is professional but...
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