THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ODILE.

By Georges Simenon

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241021596
• ISBN13: 9780241021590
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1972).
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My favorite so far of the Simenon psychological novels.

This novel is one of Simenon's short psychological novels, and probably the most interesting of those I have read so far. If you know a bit about Simenon's life, it is difficult not to read autobiography into the text. Which probably isn't fair. Odile is the depressed disaffected daughter of a great writer who goes to Paris to kill herself. The book is written from the point of view of her brother, who goes looking for her to save her life. (Simenon's daughter Mary-Jo killed herself in 1978.) I found it a very affecting book. Affecting and effective-- simple, moving and unpretentious. Simenon as the writer I love so much from the Maigret novels, but which I've often found missing in his psychological works.