La pagode
Gerrit Jan Komrij1992

One morning discovered clerk Thomas when clearing the breakfast that his mistress Adelaïde is murdered. In her bed. The old Thomas realizes that this is the end of his familiar world irrevocably: once he feeds to the memories of the happiest time of his life, when he was in the park of the Castle played with his young masters Edmund and Victor. before the secret of the pagoda is revealed there will be a lot more blood flow and there will be a lot more deaths. About the pagoda: * the story is indeed what you call costs for gourmets. - Haagse Courant * what a gem of a book is ' the pagoda ' by Gerrit Komrij. [...] what he has brought to suggestion, suspense and sensation together, borders on the incredible. [...] a Devils game of change reality and imagination [...]. - Ares merchant in Arnhemse Courant * [...] a story [...] that the reader afterwards in pleasant wonder, while he is wondering what exactly he has read. - Arnold Heumakers in de Volkskrant * the pagoda is a wonderful short story [...]. - I. Sitniakowsky in The Telegraph

Titre original : De pagode (1992)