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FROM: "Misha Stone" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 6/27/03, 4:26 PM

Hello everyone! This has been a veritable week of stumpers for us here
at the Seattle Public Library! And having our fearless & funny David
Wright m.i.a. at ALA and in Toronto has been hard on us. Take a gander
at today's Stumper and let me know if it stirs up any recollections...

"Does this ring a bell? A classic story about a man who is taken to a
house with a room that is all red, where there is a young woman,
possibly a prostitute? Patron thinks it is by someone around the time of
Zola (Maupassant, perhaps, or Balzac?) He seems to be fairly sure it is
French."

Thanks!

Misha M. Stone
Fiction Librarian
The Seattle Public Library
800 Pike St.
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 386-4660
[removed]@spl.org

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@waterborolibrary.org>
REC'D: 6/27/03, 8:41 PM

Maybe THE RED ROOM (1956) by Francoise Mallet-Joris? Not from the
time of Zola, but the movie "La Chambre Rouge" (1973) was based on
it, and here's a summary of it (the movie): "In this Belgian/French
romance, based on the novel by Françoise Mallet-Joris, Tamara
(Françoise Brion), a sex-hungry and ambitious woman "on the make,"
trifles with the affections of Lena (Sharon Gurney), in order to
gain affection with Lena's wealthy father. When Tamara and the
father are wed, Lena cultivates her wounded feelings and wants
vengeance. Though now married, Tamara is unable to pummel her own
lustful tendencies, and when the dashing, but rakish, Parisian
director Gerfaud newly arrives in town, she sets her sights on him.
Lena, seizing the opportunity for sweet revenge, gets to him first,
and he whisks her away to the deluxe "Red Room" of a local brothel.
However, getting a man into bed and enjoying it are two different
things: Lena tells the man to desist and is raped for her pains. She
succeeds in making Tamara furious, however, and the two women fight
all the way back into each others arms."

~ Molly Wms.
--
Molly Williams, Volunteer Webmaster,
Waterboro Public Library (Maine): http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
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Misha Stone wrote:
> Hello everyone! This has been a veritable week of stumpers for us here
> at the Seattle Public Library! And having our fearless & funny David
> Wright m.i.a. at ALA and in Toronto has been hard on us. Take a gander
> at today's Stumper and let me know if it stirs up any recollections...
>
> "Does this ring a bell? A classic story about a man who is taken to a
> house with a room that is all red, where there is a young woman,
> possibly a prostitute? Patron thinks it is by someone around the time of
> Zola (Maupassant, perhaps, or Balzac?) He seems to be fairly sure it is
> French."
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Misha M. Stone
> Fiction Librarian
> The Seattle Public Library
> 800 Pike St.
> Seattle, WA 98101
> (206) 386-4660
> [removed]@spl.org

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