Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Georges Simenon (Author)Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
<b>Praise for Georges Simenon:</b><br /><br />“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —<i>The Guardian</i><br /><br /> “These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself.” —<i>The Washington Post<br /></i><br /> “The matchless French crime novelist.” —Adam Gopnik, <i>The New Yorker</i><br /><br /> “Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals.” —<i>People</i><br /><br /> “I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov.” —William Faulkner<br /><br /> “An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid style.” —Amor Towles<br /><br />“I never read contemporary fiction–with one exception: the works of Simenon.” —T.S. Eliot<br /><br /> “A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré<br /><br /> “One of the most important writers of our century.” —Gabriel García Márquez<br /><br /> “A favorite writer of mine.” —Sigrid Nunez<br /><br />“A great writer of detail, of atmosphere.” —Leïla Slimani<br /><br />“Feels incredibly modern…A great writer.” —Ian Rankin<br /><br /> “The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature.” —André Gide<br /><br /> “A supreme writer . . . Unforgettable vividness.” —<i>The Independent</i> (London)<br /><br /> “Superb . . . The most addictive of writers . . . A unique teller of tales.” —<i>The Observer</i> (London)<br /><br /> “Compelling, remorseless, brilliant.” —John Gray<br /><br /> “A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously readable—lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates.” —Muriel Spark<br /><br /> “A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it.” —Peter Ackroyd<br /><br /> “Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century.” —John Banville<br /><br />"Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary legend . . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor" ―<i>Times</i> (London)<br /><br />"Strangely comforting . . . so many lovely bistros from the Paris of mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that counts." ―Margaret Atwood<br /><br />"One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere." ―<i>Financial Times</i><br /><br />"Gripping . . . richly rewarding . . . You'll quickly find yourself obsessing about his life as you tackle each mystery in turn." ―Stig Abell, <i>The Sunday Times</i> (London)
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray
A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging.
On the edge of a forest: a man hanging from every branch.
A church steeple: beneath the weathercock, a human body dangling from each arm of the cross. . . Below another sketch were written four lines from François Villon's Ballade of the Hanged Men.
On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.
This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets and The Crime of Inspector Maigret.
'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Guardian
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Georges Simenon (Author)Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.