The Snow Was Black (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Georges Simenon
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The decade of the 1940’s
- Setting: An unnamed city in a Central European country
- Principal Characters: Frank Friedmaier, Lotte, Fred Kromer, Gerhardt Holst, Sissy, The “Old Gentleman”
- 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
The Novel
The Snow Was Black begins in a cafe during winter, in a city occupied by unidentified troops, probably Nazis. Frank Friedmaier, nineteen years old, having borrowed a knife from a friend, Fred Kromer, decides to kill a noncommissioned police officer sitting at a nearby table with two women. Frank does not know the officer’s name; he has no apparent reason to kill, as he is not a member of the Resistance. Frank waits outside in an alley, his back against the wall of an unoccupied building, in the darkness, for his unwary prey to pass. He hears...
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