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...Georges Simenon. 182 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World...
...PREMIER; THE TRAIN by Georges Simenon. 248 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Belgian-born Georges Simenon is a great tattletale. His endless series of novels now total about 500, include a mound of pulpy romances, scores of Inspector Maigret mysteries, and dozens of gritty, graceful character studies such as The Premier and The Train. These were first published separately in France some years ago. Both are typical, tidy iterations of an old Simenon thesis: escape in any real sense is impossible...
...Simenon's prose rejoices in the virtues of his virtuosity: it is economical, supple, precise. The stories tend to go on too long, as though Simenon were afraid that he had not really gotten to the heart of his characters. But he writes entertainingly about corruption, cruelty or grief because he jousts at human follies without judging them...
...more of the plot would be unethical; but perhaps this preview will encourage you to see I'he Sleeping Car Murder,which is an intelligent and exciting first film by a 34-year-old French director named Costa Gavras. Using an ingenious mystery by Sebastien Japrisot, who resembles Simenon but is fonder than he of elaborate puzzles, Gavras wrote an adaptation that is both thoroughly cinematic and faithful to the spirit of the book...