Thanks for these excellent links and I agree with your high
opinion about THE BROTHERS RICO and THE BLUE ROOM. As much as
I enjoy the Maigret stories and consider the Inspector to be
one of the great characters of crime literature, his best
work can be found in the non- series stories. My favorite (so
far as there are many I have yet to read), is THE MAN WHO
WATCHED THE TRAINS GO BY.
English readers should avoid Simenon translations by Geoffrey
Sainsbury. He is one translator that experts (and I am
certainly not one) termed a butcher who changed character
profiles, plot elements and a host of other details.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Allan Guthrie"
<allan@...> wrote:
>
> Looks like a comprehensive bibliography here,
Don:
>
http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/georges-simenon.htm
>
> I've read quite a few of the noirs over the last
year. The two that
stand out are THE BROTHERS RICO and THE BLUE ROOM, but I
haven't read any of those already mentioned. Hell of a
writer.
>
> If you want to look further, there's a superb
Simenon interview
online from the Paris Review, downloadable as a .pdf from
this page.
>
http://www.parisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5020
>
> Al
>
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