Play Book Tag discussion

A man has committed murder and is on trial. His reasons for the killing are important to the case. The court questions his lack of feelings in other aspects of his life. His friendships and beliefs are also at the center of things. He does not see his blame and the author shows the narrow line between guilt and innocence.

The man is not likable and others seem put off by his not caring one way or another on things. To him that is normal, but he is criticized for it. He does not see a bigger meaning to actions and the author focuses on this. Things that happen in the first part of the story will be have more baring on his case than initially expected, but it is the end of the book that drew my attention more than the rest.

This was assigned reading for a Philosophy class I took in college. I agree the main character is not likable - and in my opinion not relatable.

I recall finding this book very depressing.

Definitely depressing. This was one of our assigned French texts at school and I haven’t been tempted to reread it. The irony is that I’d probably appreciate it much more these days

KateNZ wrote: "Definitely depressing. This was one of our assigned French texts at school and I haven’t been tempted to reread it. The irony is that I’d probably appreciate it much more these days"

Same here - one of the reads on my college 20th Century French lit classes in French of course. As this was in about 1974/75, a good chunk of the books read were all depressing and dark as all from the first half of the century.

Icsuspect many would be worth rereading and that I would actually get far more from them, but otger than possibly rereading a couple women authors like Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras, they can all stay back there.

As I attended a women's college, there was always a high level of women authors read, to the exclusion of some male authors customarily included.