The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon
by Patrick Marnham
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Georges Simenon was, during his lifetime, the bestselling writer alive. He created Chief Inspector Maigret, one of the most-loved and sanest characters in modern fiction, but was himself an alcoholic, a fantasist, a man possessed by the demon of sexual jealousy, a crime writer whose own life was haunted by the possibility of crime. His stated ideal was family life, but he conducted a quarrel with his widowed mother that lasted for 50 years, and his own family life ended in catastrophe with show more the suicide of his daughter. He married twice and seduced hundreds of women, including Josephine Baker. show lessTags
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To think that Simenon sold 500 million books and he is not available for the USA in his native language in e-book on Amazon. Only English and Italian. There is something missing.
ביוגרפיה מרתקת של האיש שכתב אלף ספרים ושכב עם עשרת אלפים נשים.
Dec 31, 2011Hebrew
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- The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon
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- Georges Simenon
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- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 843.912 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 20th Century 1900-1945
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- PQ2637 .I53 .Z638 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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- 5 — Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese
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