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A biography of the author of the Maigret stories discusses his sexual jealousy, his youthful life of crime, and his dark, probing novels, drawing connections between his childhood and his tormented fiction.

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Bresler, Fenton, Mystery of Georges Simenon, The: A Biography

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Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Geïllustreerd / Illustrated / Illustré / Illustriert, In foedraal / In slipcase, iconographie choisie et commentée par Pierre Hebey, 390 illustrations / 2070117278 / Biographies and Autobiographies / Frans / French / Français / Französisch / Vol lederen band(en) / 18 x 11 cm / 317 .pp /

291 pages en format 16.5 - 24.5 cm - photographies hors texte - reliure rigide en percaline avec titre en dorure - TBE

Un entrepreneur du quartier des Abesses menace de tuer sa femme et son amant, qui depuis deux ans s'est installe dans le foyer familial...

Book by Simenon, Georges, Simenon, G.

The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through his spirited beginnings as a writer of pulp fiction in the Paris of the 20s, his invention of Maigret in 1930, his turn to "straight" fiction in the 30s, and from the 40s on, his prolific output of detective and "straight" fiction. His obsession with women and his major friendships (Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Thornton Wilder, and others) are detailed. Also, critical evaluations of his fiction (including the largely ignored pulp fiction), Simenon's relationship to "popular" traditions, literature, detective fiction, "high" literature and the critics are offered. The photographs are rare and revealing (e.g., with Josephine Baker, cutting up in a bistro.)

An enthralling biography of a man whose life was the stuff of fiction. Numbering more than 400 in all, including the beloved Inspector Maigret stories, Georges Simenon's novels have been translated into 50 languages, with sales exceeding 500 million worldwide. Now, drawing on unprecedented access to Simenon's papers, family and friends, Pierre Assouline gives readers the utterly absorbing story of this tormented and egomaniacal genius of literary mass production. 16-page photo insert.

This portrait of Inspector Maigret ranges from his creation by Georges Simenon to his portrayal in Hollywood and French films, and on television around the world. Illustrated with old cinema posters, newspaper cartoons, book jackets and photographs, the book finishes with a behind-the-scenes account of the filming of Granada TV's series, shot on location in Budapest and starring Michael Gambon.

The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through his spirited beginnings as a writer of pulp fiction in the Paris of the 20s, his invention of Maigret in 1930, his turn to "straight" fiction in the 30s, and from the 40s on, his prolific output of detective and "straight" fiction. His obsession with women and his major friendships (Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Thornton Wilder, and others) are detailed. Also, critical evaluations of his fiction (including the largely ignored pulp fiction), Simenon's relationship to "popular" traditions, literature, detective fiction, "high" literature and the critics are offered. The photographs are rare and revealing (e.g., with Josephine Baker, cutting up in a bistro.)

Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories that feature Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective--but only in small, episodic doses. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail at a time, he slowly takes on a flesh-and-bone realism--not merely a character in a story, but someone we would like to meet in real life. This book presents all the canonical facts and details about the detective and his world in one place, presented with tabulations and analyses that enable a better understanding of the works and of Maigret himself.

Physical description; 447p,[32]p of plates : ill, ports ; 25cm. Subjects; Simenon, Georges 1903- - Biography. Novelists, French - 20th century - Biography.

The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through his spirited beginnings as a writer of pulp fiction in the Paris of the 20s, his invention of Maigret in 1930, his turn to "straight" fiction in the 30s, and from the 40s on, his prolific output of detective and "straight" fiction. His obsession with women and his major friendships (Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Thornton Wilder, and others) are detailed. Also, critical evaluations of his fiction (including the largely ignored pulp fiction), Simenon's relationship to "popular" traditions, literature, detective fiction, "high" literature and the critics are offered. The photographs are rare and revealing (e.g., with Josephine Baker, cutting up in a bistro.)

This is the 30th anniversary collection of stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Three short novels, including Rex Stout's Window for Death; 3 novelets, including Ross Macdonald's Midnight Blue and P.D. James's Murder 1986; and 9 short stories, including Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret Investigates.

Pedigree is Georges Simenon’s longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the initial pages to André Gide, who urged him to turn them into a novel. The result was, Simenon later quipped, a book in which everything is true but nothing is accurate. Spanning the years from the beginning of the century, with its political instability and terrorist threats, to the end of the First World War in 1918, Pedigree is an epic of everyday existence in all its messy unfinished intensity and density, a story about the coming-of-age of a precocious and curious boy and the coming to be of the modern world.

Based on his own experiences, Georges Simenon tells of a period in his youth when he was befriended by three men. Unbeknownst to him, these three would go on to commit a series of wholly reprehensible crimes. Yet it was only by chance that these travesties inspired Simenon to become a crime writer, rather than tread the path of evil himself. One of the 20th century's most prolific and widely read authors, Georges Simenon (1903–1989) is widely recognized as one of the most skillful and literate writers of detective fiction, famed for his Commissaire Maigret novels.

DVD edition. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, this exciting tale of crime, passion, betrayal, and murder stars Claude Rains as Kees Popinga, an honest, mild-mannered clerk at a Dutch trading company who discovers that his employer has been embezzling money to support his mistress (Mrta Torn). When his boss ends up dead, Popinga finds himself on the run with the cash, the girl, and the police in hot pursuit. With Herbert Lom, Marius Goring. AKA: "The Paris Express." 83 min. Standard; Soundt

Blu-ray edition. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, this exciting tale of crime, passion, betrayal, and murder stars Claude Rains as Kees Popinga, an honest, mild-mannered clerk at a Dutch trading company who discovers that his employer has been embezzling money to support his mistress (Mrta Torn). When his boss ends up dead, Popinga finds himself on the run with the cash, the girl, and the police in hot pursuit. With Herbert Lom, Marius Goring. AKA: "The Paris Express." 83 min. Standard; So