The Widow - Couverture souple

Simenon, Georges

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1590172612 ISBN 13 : 9781590172612

Editeur : NYRB Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Simenon Georges

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“These books...are not mysteries...They are hard, blunt, frequently punishing studies of human beings driven by circumstance and personality to the ends of their tethers, forcing them to extreme measures...They are acute, compact, remarkably varied, and as lapidary as great pop songs.” —Luc Sante, Bookforum

 

"As the New York Review of Books Classics series publishes Simenon after Simenon at a rate the novelist would envy, it's tempting to read them all in a lump, as an extensive, though still partial, psychological portrait of the writer." -The Nation

 

“Georges Simeon is not only a master of suspense, he knows also how to probe so deeply into the minds of his characters as to reveal with remarkable fidelity the more evasive of human motives.” –Cleveland Press

 

“Marked by a brutal and earthy realism...Extremely readable.” –Eerie Times

 

“Strong, terrible, splendid stuff her, by one of the world’s strangest, most notable talents.” –Houston Chronicle

 

“Simenon’s novels of suspense...unfold with a relentlessness, a sense of compulsion, that is as chilling as the deeds to which his people are driven by the quirks of character within them...One of the greatest and most prolific of the modern French creators of fiction, the author is notable for the clean economy of his writing style.” –Philadelphia Inquirer

 

"If I hadn't read Ticket of Leave (The Widow), I couldn't have written The Stranger." –Albert Camus.

 

“[A] psychological masterpiece” –St. Petersburg Times

 

“[Further] examples of M. Simenon’s ability to grasp entirely dissimilar milieux and to demonstrate the universality of the tragedy to be founding both of them...There is a harsh, almost Biblical intensity to M. Simenon’s catalogues of punishment: he is a believer in original sin.” –The New York Times

Biographie de l'auteur

Georges Simenon (1903—1989) was born in Liege, Belgium. He went to work as a reporter at the age of fifteen and in 1923 moved to Paris, where under various pseudonyms he became a highly successful and prolific author of pulp fiction while leading a dazzling social life. In the early 1930s, Simenon emerged as a writer under his own name, gaining renown for his detective stories featuring Inspector Maigret. He also began to write his psychological novels–books in which he displays a sympathetic awareness of the emotional and spiritual pain underlying the routines of daily life. Having written nearly two hundred books under his own name and become the best-selling author in the world, Simenon retired as a novelist in 1973, devoting himself instead to dictating several volumes of memoirs.

Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967. He has published novels and travel books, his latest being The Elephanta Suite. He divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian Islands, where he is a professional beekeeper.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NYRB Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1590172612
• ISBN 13: 9781590172612
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible