The Red Door Inn
(Peyramaure, Michel)
Translation by: femme/300/7 November 2005
Do you remember the film "The Red Door Inn" with Fernandel?
Michel Peyramaure carries us away to the year 1833 at the time of the trial of the innkeepers, Mr. and Mrs. Martin, and their valet, Jean Rochette. They are accused of robbing and murdering one of their customers, as well as some of their other customers.
As the work progresses, we are present as the witnesses tell about strange, unusual, and anxiety-provoking scenes that people passing through who have stayed at this Peyrebeille Inn have witnessed. Some of them saw certain things and others imagined they did on account of being biased by that which they had heard about the crime. Is this enough to convict them? Apparently so, because in all of that, in court, they are identified as the murderers with the help of a witness. They will be executed in the public square, close to their inn.
But was all of this true? Were they really guilty? Was this a setup or were the reported facts changed around from one person to the next since the story was made the object of much conjecturing? In the end, hadn't the witnesses overheard things and made conjectures more than seen what had transpired with their very own eyes? This is precisely what the author asks himself at the end of his narration after he has related the entire legal proceedings to us.
It's true that after one closes this book they will feel obligated to ask themself the same question and will have the feeling that something is incomplete because the Peyrebeille enigma, although a judgment was returned, will, without a doubt, remain ambiguous and unresolved in some people's minds, and perhaps, also in yours.
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