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Aug 31, 2019 · John is the oldest of their three children; Simenon had also had a son with his first wife, Tigy. I asked John whether there was anything of his father in Maigret. “Maigret is perhaps a...
- The Snow Was Dirty
- The Saint-Fiacre Affair
- The Man Who Watched Trains Go by
- The Mahé Circle
- The Strangers in The House
It’s a pity that most readers, hearing the name Simenon, immediately think: Oh yes, Maigret. But in fact Simenon, as he well knew, was at his best in what he called his romans durs,or ‘hard novels’. And this one is surely the hardest of them all. It’s set in Liège, Simenon’s hometown, during the war, among a cast of gangsters and low-lifes. An asto...
This is one of the very best of the Maigret series. The Paris police inspector travels to the village of his birth, to investigate a predicted murder, which duly takes place. The opening scene, in which Maigret rises early on a winter morning in a provincial hotel, is superb. The plot, as usual, is preposterous. But one doesn’t read a Maigret for a...
A deeply unsettling study of a psychotic — the wonderfully named Kees Popinga — recounted with the lightest of touches. Simenon knew a great deal about the darkness of the human psyche, and his great gift, one of his great gifts, is to observe, and report, with an utterly unsentimental eye, on the doings of his fellow humans.
An extraordinary study of a burgeoning and eventually fatal obsession. It is set on the holiday island of Porquerolles off the south coast of France, but is the story of a holiday in Hell, as the eponymous Mahé conducts his doomed pursuit of the girl in the red dress. Enigmatic, brooding, and wholly convincing.
The lawyer Hector Loursat has largely given up on life after his wife’s desertion. He spends each evening reading and drinking himself into oblivion. Then a murder is committed in his house and he determines to act as legal defence for the young accused. I can do no better than quote myself (from the LA Times, 2018): ‘the quintessentialroman dur:di...
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most popular authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.
Simenon.com | The official Georges Simenon website, by John Simenon. Home. My goal in publishing Simenon.com is to provide family, friends, fans and professionals an official reference site at once factual and personal about my father, Georges Simenon.
As a new adaptation of Georges Simenon's Maigret is released, John Simenon investigates the essence of his father's creation.
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Jun 22, 2021 · Georges Simenon Limited (GSL) has signed a licence and co-production arrangement with Colin Callender’s Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning Playground (“Howards End”) to co-develop with Red Arrow...
