Simenon, Georges (Vol. 2) - Simenon, Georges 1903–
Simenon, Georges 1903–
A Belgian-born French novelist, Simenon is the author of hundreds of novels under his own name and various pseudonyms. He is highly respected for his psychological novels, but best known for his inimitable detective stories featuring Inspector Maigret. He has now reportedly ceased to write.
Georges Simenon does with his characters the same thing that his character Chief Inspector Maigret does with the criminals he is after: he puts himself in their boots, identifying himself with them in order to reconstruct the chain of their reasoning and emotions. In fact, all his heroes resemble him.
Therefore, there is perhaps no writer who confesses more intimate secrets to us than this author of detective and popular fiction whose fertile imagination is justly famous.
The stranger his creatures' actions are, the more Georges Simenon depends on them to express what is important to him without betraying himself. This is...
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