The Snow Was Black (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Georges Simenon
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1940-1945
- Setting: An unnamed Central European city
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Prisoners, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Europe or Europeans, 1940’s, Violence, Robbery or robbers, Death or dying, Nazism or Nazis
- Locales: Europe
Characters Discussed
Frank Friedmaier, an idler, robber, and killer. The son of a former prostitute (now a madam) and of an unknown father, Friedmaier is short and boyish. He is nineteen years old when the story begins. His outward lack of emotion, disconcerting to others and terrifying to his mother, conceals an intense desire to find a stable place in the chaos of Nazi-occupied Europe. Although he craves attention, he despises those who demonstrate affection for him. He bullies his mother, who fears him, even while he lives off of her earnings; he is contemptuous of the...
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