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Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140471151
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Disappearance of Odile written by Georges Simenon and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175638
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Widow written by Georges Simenon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Widow is the story of two outcasts and their fatal encounter. One is the widow herself, Tati. Still young, she’s never had an easy time of it, but she’s not the kind to complain. Tati lives with her father-in-law on the family farm, putting up with his sexual attentions, working her fingers to the bone, improving the property and knowing all the time that her late husband’s sister is scheming to kick her out and take the house back. The other is a killer. Just out of prison and in search of a new life, Jean meets up with Tati, who hires him as a handyman and then takes him to bed. Things are looking up, at least until Jean falls hard for the girl next door. The Widow was published in the same year as Camus’ The Stranger, and André Gide judged it the superior book. It is Georges Simenon’s most powerful and disturbing exploration of the bond between death and desire.
Author : Russell Campbell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648271
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Investigating Simenon written by Russell Campbell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, the work of Belgian crime writer and psychological novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Chief Inspector Maigret, has captivated readers worldwide. This investigation situates Simenon's work in its historical context and interprets it as a reaction to shifting gender relations in Western society. Simenon's compelling narratives capture the anxieties of men whose patriarchal position was under threat in an era of insurgent feminist movements. These concerns are also evident in Simenon's pervasive preoccupation with sexuality, as well as his political stance that stems from his petit-bourgeois upbringing. This groundbreaking study includes interwoven commentary on all 191 novels Simenon published under his own name, including several that have never been translated into English, as well as a number of short stories and several pseudonymous works.
Author : Tanguy Viel
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162897382X
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan written by Tanguy Viel and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tanguy Viel's parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly poses questions about the narrative structure it is deploying." —The French Review In The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, disappearance is both a theme and a stylistic device. Indeed, this publication narrates the disappearance of Dwayne Koster, who, fascinated by the story of Jim Sullivan, commits suicide in the New Mexico desert which was the setting of the rocker’s disappearance in 1975. But this novel is for the most part set in the metanarrative tale of its own genesis, and, as a result, is partially eclipsed: its -fictitious- author doesn’t relate it in its entirety and keeps adding bits and pieces of first drafts and preliminary sketches to his text, thus blurring its boundaries. Tanguy Viel’s work can therefore be perceived as a double response, existential and aesthetic, to the question of the end.
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1935554735
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Train written by Georges Simenon and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a “normal” life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the “Fate” that he has secretly awaited. Separated from his pregnant wife and young daughter in the chaos of flight, he joins a freight car of refugees hurtling southward ahead of the pursuing invaders. There, he meets Anna, a sad-looking, dark- haired girl, whose accent is “neither Belgian nor German,” and who “seemed foreign to everything around her.” As the mystery of Anna’s identity is gradually revealed, Marcel leaps from the heights of an exhilarating freedom to the depths of a terrifying responsibility—one that will lead him to a blood-chilling choice. When it first appeared in English in 1964, British novelist and critic Brigid Brophy declared The Train to be “the novel his admirers had been expecting all along from Simenon.” Until The Train, she wrote, the dazzlingly prolific novelist had been “a master without a masterpiece.”
Author : Robert Greacen
Publisher : Lapwing Publications
ISBN 13 : 1898472432
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Ecstasy written by Robert Greacen and published by Lapwing Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard G. Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474417795
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture written by Richard G. Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994. The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. The implications of the implosion of Western culture are dissected and documented in the rich range of material included here.
Author : Stanley G. Eskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Simenon, a Critical Biography written by Stanley G. Eskin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Thornton Wilder, and others) are detailed. Also, critical evaluations of his fiction (including the largely ignored pulp fiction), Simenon's relationship to popular traditions, literature, detective fiction, high literature and the critics are offered. The photographs are rare and revealing (e.g., with Josephine Baker, cutting up in a bistro.)
Author : Kat Richardson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451415450
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Seawitch written by Kat Richardson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases. A quarter century ago, the Seawitch cruised away from her dock and disappeared with everyone on board. Now the boat has mysteriously returned to her old berth in Seattle and the insurance company has hired Harper to find out what happened—but she’s not the only one investigating. Seattle police detective Rey Solis is a good cop, albeit one who isn’t comfortable with the creepy cases that always seem to end up in Harper’s lap. As Solis focuses on the possible murder of a passenger’s wife, Harper’s investigation leads her to a powerful being who may be responsible for the Seawitch’s disappearance. While their searches lead Harper and Solis in different directions, they will need to put aside their differences to solve a mystery twenty-five years in the making.…
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1786 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ted Mooney
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307474364
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Same River Twice written by Ted Mooney and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Odile Mével is a French clothing designer, her American husband, Max, an independent filmmaker. When Odile agrees to buy a selection of ceremonial May Day banners in the Soviet Union and deliver the contraband to Paris she earns a new job description: smuggler. Soon her fellow courier disappears, her apartment is ransacked, and her friend’s houseboat is firebombed. While Max has no inkling of Odile’s dealings, he finds himself embroiled in a baffling film world mystery of his own. As their escapades deepen and their deceptions multiply, Odile and Max discover their secrets are connected—endangering not only their marriage but their lives.
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Intimate Memoirs written by Georges Simenon and published by San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1984 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Couple from Poitiers written by Georges Simenon and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : André Klarsfeld
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801441189
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Biology of Death written by André Klarsfeld and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we die? Do all living creatures share this fate? Is the body's slow degradation with the passage of time unavoidable, or can the secrets of longevity be unlocked? Over the past two decades, scientists studying the workings of genes and cells have uncovered some of the clues necessary to solve these mysteries. In this fascinating and accessible book, two neurobiologists share the often-surprising findings from that research, including the possibility that aging and natural death may not be forever a certainty for most living beings. André Klarsfeld and Frédéric Revah discuss in detail the latest scientific findings and views on death and longevity. They challenge many popular assumptions, such as the idea that the death of individual organisms serves to rejuvenate species or that death and sexual reproduction are necessarily linked. Finally, they describe current experimental approaches to postpone natural death in lower organisms as well as in mammals. Are all organisms that survive until late in life condemned to a "natural" death, as a consequence of aging, even if they live in a well-protected, supportive environment? The variability of the adult life span--from a few hours for some insects to more than a millennium for the sequoia and thirteen times that for certain wild berry bushes--challenges the notion that death is unavoidable. Evolutionary theory helps explain why and how some species have achieved biological mechanisms that seemingly allow them to resist time. Death cannot be understood without looking into cells--the essential building blocks of life. Intriguingly, at the level of cells, death is not always an accident; it is often programmed as an indispensable aspect of life, which benefits the organism as a whole.
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Others written by Georges Simenon and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Massimo Carlotto
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1609451732
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Fugitive written by Massimo Carlotto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Death’s Dark Abyss and The Goodbye Kiss comes an extraordinary tale of life on the run. Massimo Carlotto’s odyssey began in 1976 when, as a member of a militant leftwing organization that had fallen awry of the ruling powers, he was arrested and falsely accused of murder. Unwilling to play the role of fall guy in a political power struggle, he chose to flee the country rather than wait for a verdict that the whole country knew was a foregone conclusion. He first went into hiding in the French underworld and then made his way to a Mexico embroiled in bloody class conflict. Betrayed by a Mexican lawyer, he returned to Italy in 1985 and spent six years in prison, during which time the “Carlotto case” became Italy’s most famous legal fiasco. Carlotto was finally freed with a presidential pardon in 1993. Subsequently, his case helped bring about significant changes to the Italian criminal code to ensure that similar judicial travesties would never happen again. The Fugitive is the first book that Carlotto wrote as a free man. It tells his story with verve and humor. Virtually a handbook on how to live life on the run, The Fugitive is also a vibrant novel full of vivid underworld characters and breathtaking moments that Carlotto recounts in the cool, lucid prose that has become his trademark.
