Simenon, Georges (Vol. 8) - Simenon, Georges 1903–
Simenon, Georges 1903–
Simenon is a Belgian-born French novelist who has written over two hundred novels under his own name and several pseudonyms. Best known for his detective stories featuring Inspector Maigret, all of Simenon's novels probe the psyche in search of human motivation. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 3.)
Georges Simenon is the classic French writer: neat, contained, fastidious and low-keyed. Every tyro could study with profit the first 26 pages of his new novel ["The House on Quai Notre Dame"], simply to see how effortlessly he starts the story turning and how intriguing he makes every scene and incident. And like a Gallic Ross Macdonald, he is at his best in conveying the sense of place in which his stories develop. When his characters speak, more is meant than said….
Simenon never overwrites. Some of the pages in this book read like a series of epigrams on French small-town life. But sometimes he doesn't write enough...
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