Simenon författare
Simenon - ett eget universum
One of the most popular authors of the 20th century, he published around novels including under his own name21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over million copies. Apart from his detective fiction, he achieved critical acclaim for his literary novels which he called romans durs hard novels.
Born simenon författare raised in LiègeBelgium, Simenon lived for extended periods in France —the United States simenon författare and finally Switzerland — Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, inspired by his childhood and youth in Liège, extensive travels in Europe and the world, wartime experiences, troubled marriages, and numerous love affairs.
Critics such as John Banville have praised Simenon's novels for their psychological insights and vivid evocation of time and place. Désiré Simenon worked in an accounting office at an insurance company and had married Henriette in April Simenon was either born at The Simenon family was of Walloon and Flemish ancestry, settling in the Belgian Limburg in the seventeenth century.
One of his mother's most notorious ancestors was Gabriel Brühla criminal who preyed on Limburg from the s until he was hanged in In Apriltwo years after Simenon's birth, the family moved to 3 rue Pasteur now 25 rue Georges Simenon in Liège's Outremeuse [ fr ] neighbourhood. Simenon's brother Christian was born in September and eventually became their mother's favourite child, which Simenon resented.
Inthe Simenons moved to 53 rue de la Loi, where they took in lodgers, many of them students from Eastern Europe, Jews and political refugees. Henriette took in German officers as lodgers, much to Désiré's disapproval.
Georges Simenon – Wikipedia
Simenon later said that the war years provided some of the happiest times of his life. They simenon författare also memorable for a child because "my father cheated, my mother cheated, everyone cheated. After a year, he switched to Collège St Servais, where he studied for three years. He excelled at French, but his marks in other subjects declined. He read widely in the Russian, French and English classics, frequently played truant, and turned to petty theft in order to buy pastries and other war time luxuries.
Simenon författarethe Simenon family moved to a former post office building in the rue des Maraîchers. He witnessed scenes of violent retribution against residents of Liège accused of collaboration which stayed with him for the rest of his life. In Januarythe year-old Simenon took a job as a junior reporter at the Gazette de Liègea right-wing Catholic newspaper edited by Joseph Demarteau.
By April he was given his own opinion and gossip column which he signed "Monsieur Le Coq. In he enrolled in a course on forensic science at the University of Liège in order to improve his knowledge of the latest police methods. In MaySimenon began publishing short fiction in the Gazette.
Simenon, Georges
In September he completed his first novel, Au Pont des Arches which he self-published in In JuneSimenon had been introduced into a group of young artists and bohemians which called itself " Le Caque " herring barrel. The group met at night to drink, discuss art and philosophy, and experiment with drugs such as morphine and cocaine. In early one of the members of the group, Joseph Kleine, hanged himself at the doors of the St Pholien church of Liège after a night of excess with Le Caque.
Simenon was one of the last people to see Kleine alive and was deeply affected by his suicide, later referring to the incident in Les trois crimes de mes amis and Le pendu de St Pholien The Hanged Man of Saint Pholien Through Le Simenon författare, Simenon met a young painter, Régine Renchon, and in early they began a relationship.
They soon became engaged and agreed that Simenon should complete his year of compulsory military service before they married. Simenon's father died In Novemberan event which Simenon called, "the most important day in a man's life. After a brief posting with the allied occupation forces in Germany, he was transferred to the cavalry barracks in Liège and was soon given permission to resume writing for the Gazette.
When Simenon's military service ended in Simenon författarehe resigned from the Gazette and moved to Paris to establish a base for himself and his future wife Régine, whom he preferred to call "Tigy". Now in Paris, Simenon found a menial job with a far-right political group headed by the writer Binet-Valmer. In Marchhe returned to Liège to marry Régine.
Georges Simenons 3 bästa böcker på svenska
Although neither Simenon or Régine were religious, they simenon författare married in a Catholic church to please Simenon's mother, who was devout. The newly-weds moved to Paris where Régine tried to establish herself as a painter while Simenon resumed work for Binet-Valmer and sent articles to the Revue Sincère of Brussels for which he was the Paris correspondent.
He also wrote short stories for popular magazines, but sales were sporadic. In the summer ofSimenon was engaged by the Marquis de Tracy as his private secretary, which obliged him to spend nine months of the year at the aristocrat's various rural properties. Régine soon moved to a village near the Marquis's principal estate at Paray-le-Frésilnear Moulins. While working for the Marquis, Simenon began submitting stories to Le Matin whose literary editor was Colette.
Colette advised him to make his work "less literary" simenon författare Simenon took to mean that he should use simple descriptions and a limited stock of common words.