Simenon, Georges (Vol. 3) - Simenon, Georges 1903–
Simenon, Georges 1903–
Simenon, a Belgian-born French novelist and short story writer, is beloved by millions of readers in thirty languages. He has written about 600 novels, about 120 of which are the psychologically-taut detective stories featuring the inimitable Inspector Maigret.
Georges Simenon is not only the greatest story-teller of our day. He is—to put the matter in blunt, critical shorthand—an eighth type of literary ambiguity. His range, versatility and sheer production baffle his addicts and enrage his critics. Part poet and part journalist, part showman and part shaman, he is among the supreme craftsmen of the art of fiction, its contemporary Pied Piper, one who has created a whole discothèque of disturbing dreams under the hill. Each of his seasoned listeners begins a new melodic line with the sinking certainty that the music will gradually but inevitably draw him into some original and sinister cave of the imagination....
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