Simenon, a Critical Biography

by Stanley G. Eskin

The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through his spirited beginnings as a writer of pulp fiction in the Paris of the 20s, his invention of Maigret in 1930, his turn to straight fiction in the 30s, and from the 40s on, his prolific output of detective and straight fiction.His obsession with women and his major friendships (Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899502814
• ISBN13: 9780899502816
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.