The Cat

4 hrs. 41 min.

Language Russian

Author Georges Simenon

Narrator Shniferson

Description

The life of elderly spouses Marguerite Charmeux and Emile Buien is an unending drama. She is a spoiled, “delicately” raised daughter of a manufacturer’s—she is a widow of a salon violinist; he is also a widower, a former stonemason, a simple worker. Neither of them finds—or seeks—any opportunity to arrange a shared life, to meet each other halfway. She poisoned his beloved cat; he plucked the feathers from her parrot and sent the unfortunate bird to the other world…

Is it possible to overcome mutual hostility, the gulf separating children from their parents, to restore to people respect for themselves and their loved ones?