THE CAT by Georges Simenon. 182 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World. $4.50.
At 64, with some 500 novels to his credit, Georges Simenon continues to demonstrate that he is a writer of extraordinary rangeĀfrom murder-a-month Inspector Maigret thrillers to some of the most original psychodrama since Gide. These days his tone is quieter and more autumnal than it used to be; he is thinking hard about old age. His latest book suggests Edward Albee loose among the geriatric set, a Virginia Woolf on Medicare.
The Cat is the story of a widow and a widower whose hatred for each other is exceeded only...
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