Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
Quite simply a masterpiece
*John Banville*
More philosophically profound than any of the fiction of Camus or
Sartre, and far less self-conscious. This is existentialism with a
backbone of tempered steel
*New Republic*
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