Word: simenon
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...author pick his characters out of phone books, turn plot construction over to his subconscious, then write an entire novel in eight days and hope to attain a respected literary reputation? (See THE WORLD, "A Happy 200th to Simenon...
First Jet-Setter: Listen for our flight call to Katmandu, will you, darling? I want to pick up a maigret. Second Jet-Setter: While you're up, will you get me a simenon...
NEITHER Franglais nor Esperanto, the words "maigret" and "simenon" are nevertheless working their way into many of the world's vocabularies. Properly, a maigret is a detective story whose hero is a Parisian police inspector by that name, but so many maigrets have been published that the word is now used to describe mystery stories in general. In a stricter sense, a simenon is any novel except a maigret by Maigret's progenitor, Belgian-born Author Georges Simenon, 66. Simenon has produced a total of 74 maigrets and 126 simenons, which have appeared in 43 languages. Last week...
This prodigious output has long since made the author a millionaire. Simenon's house at Epalinges, a small Swiss village near Lausanne, has 26 rooms, 21 telephones, portraits of its owner by Buffet, Vlaminck and Cocteau. But the house is more important as a mark of contentment for the Liège-born Simenon, who shares it with Second Wife Denise, their three children and a livery of servants. Previously, his restlessness pushed him for varying periods into 30 residences around the world as well as into a sloop on which he cruised through Europe. Simenon even...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "Thirteen Against Fate: The Widower," another in this package of 13 BBC-produced plays based on Georges Simenon mysteries, dwells on a wife's suicide and a husband's selfdelusion...