![]() Today, except for an infrequent Maigret, he publishes only serious novels. ![]() From the Maigrets he moved on rapidly to the tense psychological novel of less than two hundred pages known to his thousands of European readers as "a simenon" and of which he has now written wore than seventy-five. He shortened the period of training in commercial novels when he began to write a transitional fiction his series of books about the detective Maigret. Using at least sixteen pen-names ranging from Christian Brulls to Gom Gut, he began writing scores of commercial novels one of them in exactly twenty five hours with the intention of training himself for more serious works. Simenon published his first novel, Au Pont des Arches, at seventeen, and by writing it in ten days began at once his phenomenal practice of rapid production. ![]() Georges Simenon interviewed by Carvel CollinsĪndré Gide, who was writing a study of Georges Simenon's fiction at the end of his life, called Simenon "perhaps the greatest novelist" of contemporary France. ![]() Georges Simenon: Paris Review Interview Bibliography Reference Forum Plots Texts Simenon Gallery Shopping Film Links ![]()
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