I just finished Georges Simenon's 'The Man Who Watched Trains
Go By' and it was terrific. It's one of his 'Roman Durs'
which I think translates roughly as tough novel. It's an
extraordinary book, more existential and powerful than
Camus's 'The Stranger' in many ways?and every bit as tough
and noir as something by Jim Thompson but in?it's own?very
distinctive fashion.
It's made me go out and buy a bunch more of these tough
novels by Simenon. Thanks to New York Review Books there's
something like half a dozen different titles in print in very
handsome paperback editions.
And this is only the tip of a very large iceberg: Simenon
wrote some 117 of these hardboiled/noir novels and
apparently?they're all pretty good!
What an extraordinary find. It's like discovering a new
continent or planet. ??
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