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'''''Le Moulin de la Sourdine''''' (1936), translated as '''''The Secret Stream''''', is a [[novel]] by French writer [[Marcel Aymé]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
In a small provincial French town (based on [[Dole, Jura|Dole]], where the author grew up), a [[notary]] in the grip of his sexual fantasies savagely murders his young maid. A schoolboy happens to witness the crime during an escapade atop a church bell tower, but after the maid's body is discovered, suspicions quickly fall upon a vagrant with a physical deformity.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Aymé|first=Marcel|title=The Secret Stream|publisher=Harper|year=1953|location=New York|translator-last=Denny|translator-first=Norman}}</ref><br />
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==Publication==<br />
Written between the fall of 1935 and the spring of 1936, ''Le Moulin de la Sourdine'' first appeared as a serial in ''[[Marianne (journal, 1932-1940)|Marianne]]'' from 29 April to 5 August 1936 before being published by [[Gallimard]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Marcel Aymé Le Moulin de la Sourdine|url=https://www.marcelayme.net/marcel_ayme/oeuvre/romans/le_moulin_de_la_sourdine/le_moulin.html|access-date=2021-10-21|website=www.marcelayme.net}}</ref> The book was translated into English by [[Norman Denny]] for the [[Bodley Head]] in 1953 and [[Harper (publisher)|Harper]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite news |last=Keene |first=Frances |date=7 February 1954 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/02/07/archives/a-hankering-for-violence-the-secret-stream-by-marcel-ayme.html |title=A Hankering For Violence; The Secret Stream. By Marcel Ayme. Translated from the French by Norman Denny. 224 pp. New York: Harper & Bros. $2.75 |url-access=subscription |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=19 January 2023 }}</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' wrote that the book "lacks the satiric invention of [Aymé's] later books, but there's cutting edge to this portfolio of life in a small town in the French provinces and the covert conduct of its leading citizens".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/marcel-ayme-4/the-secret-stream-1/ |title=The Secret Stream by Marcel Aymé |newspaper=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |date=1 February 1953 |access-date=19 January 2023 }}</ref><br />
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