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Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon (2004, Trade Paperback)
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MONSIEUR MONDE VANISHES (NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS CLASSICS) By Georges Simenon & Jean Stewart & Larry Mcmurtry **BRAND NEW**.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-101590170962
ISBN-139781590170960
eBay Product ID (ePID)30214624
Product Key Features
Original LanguageFrench
Book TitleMonsieur Monde Vanishes
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorGeorges Simenon
Book SeriesNew York Review Books Classics
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight7.1 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-010494
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Attention should be paid to the New York Review of Books' continuing reissues of Georges Simenon. Simenon was legendary both for his literary skillfour or five books every year for 40 yearsand his sexual capacity, at least to hear him tell it. What we can speak of with some certainty are the novels, which are tough, rigorously unsentimental and full of rage, duplicity and, occasionally, justice. Simenon's tone and dispassionate examination of humanity was echoed by Patricia Highsmith, who dispensed with the justice. So far, the Review has publishedTropic Moon, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, Red Lights, Dirty SnowandThree Bedrooms in Manhattan;The Strangers in the Housecomes out in November. Try one, and you'll want to read more." The Palm Beach Post, "Attention should be paid to the New York Review of Books' continuing reissues of Georges Simenon. Simenon was legendary both for his literary skillfour or five books every year for 40 yearsand his sexual capacity, at least to hear him tell it. What we can speak of with some certainty are the novels, which are tough, rigorously unsentimental and full of rage, duplicity and, occasionally, justice. Simenon's tone and dispassionate examination of humanity was echoed by Patricia Highsmith, who dispensed with the justice. So far, the Review has published Tropic Moon, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, Red Lights, Dirty Snow and Three Bedrooms in Manhattan ; The Strangers in the House comes out in November. Try one, and you'll want to read more." The Palm Beach Post "What many regard as the finest of all noir novels…"--Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times " Dirty Snow is an astonishing work....a bleak masterpiece, its darkness is as William T. Vollmann writes in a perceptive afterword, 'as solid and heavy as the interior of a dwarf star.'" --John Banville, The New Republic " Dirty Snow is both exhilirating and taxing: exhilirating because it frees the reader to imagine unthinkable acts of violence and degradation and, if not to approve of them exactly, then at least to better understand their origin; and taxing because of the effort it takes to even visit Simenon's nihilist world for a while. ... Dirty Snow has an eerie locomotion, an eerie appeal." --Bill Eichenberger, Columbus Dispatch "Simenon may not have thought much of humanity, but few writers have captured its squalid core the way he did." -- Time Out New York "Extraordinary… Simenon demonstrates a rare mastery"--Anita Brookner "A Master storyteller… Simenon gave to the puzzle story a humanity that it had never had before."-- Daily Telegraph "The best mystery writer today is a Belgian who writes in French. His name is Georges Simenon."--Dashiell Hammett "A truly wonderful writer… marvellously readable, lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates."--Muriel Spark "One of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right."--Hans Konning "The great master of unease"--Marcel Clements, International Herald Tribune "The gift of narration is the rarest of all gifts in the 20th century. Georges Simenon has that to the tips of his fingers."--Thorton Wilder "At his best, Simenon is an all-round master craftsman- ironic, disciplined, highly intelligent, with fine descriptive power. His themes are timeless in their preoccupation with the interrelation of evil, guilt and good; contemporary in their fidelity to the modern context and Gallic in precision, logic and a certain emanation of pain or disquiet. His fluency is of course astonishing. His life is itself a work by Simenon." --Francis Steegmuller "Georges Simenon is more than prolific. His psychological intensity and compression of style mark him as a leading writer of the Century."-- The New York Times "Georges Simenon is a recent discovery for me -- not the Maigret books, but what Simenon called his "romans durs", such as "Dirty Snow" and "Three Bedrooms in Manhattan" -- and hard they are indeed. The latest of these New York Review Books reissues, "Tropic Moon" (translated from the French by Marc Romano) is a dark masterpiece set among French colonials in heart-of-darkness Gabon in the early 1930s. Cruel, erotic, frightening and superb." -- John Banville, The Los Angeles Times, "Attention should be paid to the New York Review of Books' continuing reissues of Georges Simenon. Simenon was legendary both for his literary skill-four or five books every year for 40 years-and his sexual capacity, at least to hear him tell it. What we can speak of with some certainty are the novels, which are tough, rigorously unsentimental and full of rage, duplicity and, occasionally, justice. Simenon's tone and dispassionate examination of humanity was echoed by Patricia Highsmith, who dispensed with the justice. So far, the Review has published Tropic Moon, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, Red Lights, Dirty Snow and Three Bedrooms in Manhattan ; The Strangers in the House comes out in November. Try one, and you'll want to read more." - The Palm Beach Post "A truly wonderful writer...marvellously readable, lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates." -- Muriel Spark
Dewey Decimal843/.912
SynopsisMonsieur Monde is a successful middle-aged businessman in Paris. One morning he walks out on his life, leaving his wife asleep in bed, leaving everything. Not long after, he surfaces on the Riviera, keeping company with drunks, whores and pimps, with thieves and their marks. A whole new world, where he feels surprisingly at home--at least for a while. Georges Simenon knew how obsession, buried for years, can come to life, and about the wreckage it leaves behind. He had a remarkable understanding of how bizarrely unaccountable people can be. And he had an almost uncanny ability to capture the look and feel of a given place and time. Monsieur Monde Vanishes is a subtle and profoundly disturbing triumph by the most popular of the twentieth century's great writers.
LC Classification NumberPQ2637
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