Complete summary of georges simenons the blue room. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective jules maigret. Georges simenon, jack hawkins, linda coverdale translator, audible studios. The length of this book might fool you into thinking that you can buzz through it in a. The blue room by georges simenon writing, reading and stuff. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories. With mathieu amalric, lea drucker, stephanie cleau, laurent poitrenaux. When it did happen we dont realize that it is an important incident, nobody earmarks events and tells us they are important or something that we are going to think about and dissect. The blue room ebook by georges simenon rakuten kobo. The blue room penguin modern classics kindle edition. Julien works as an agricultural contractor, is married to delphine, and has a daughter, suzanne. They typically meet in a room at the hotel des voyageurs owned by tonys brother vincent. The blue room audiobook by georges simenon, linda coverdale.
The blue room by georges simenon there are some incidents in our life that we mull over again and again. Read the blue room by georges simenon available from rakuten kobo. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. With simenon s gift for detail, his focus on human nature and his characters, his ability to produce a sort of claustrophobic atmosphere that only becomes more confining as time goes on, and his excellent economy of prose where every word, every phrase is carefully measured and never wasted, the blue room offers an intense study of a man who. In the blue room, who actually committed the crime. As a matter of fact, i recently repeated this sequence. The blue room penguin modern classics kindle edition by. One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Simenon is the author of close to 200 novels in his native language of french. About the author georges simenon 19031989 was born in liege, belgium.
Beyond that, the novel works so well because of the characters and the tensions between them, even the secondary ones. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the blue room penguin modern classics. This book is the first step for beginning readers in the discover. Simenon, the book tree, in lexpress international 2003. Click to read more about the blue room by georges simenon. For tony and andree, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the hotel des voyageurs. Complete summary of georges simenon s the blue room. The first novel in the series, pietrleletton, was serialized in 1930 and appeared in book form in 1931. Its easy to see how as a writer hed reach that conclusion.
Linda coverdale this is a new translation of simenons gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. The maigret novels were translated into all major languages and several of them were turned into films and radio. He has published 158 books, many of them psychological novels and others in the inspector maigret series, and his work has been admired by almost all the leading french and english critics. Blue room, a band that performed everytime you go away at the end of the film planes, trains and automobilesblue room 1926 song, a 1926 song written by richard rodgers and lorenz hart blue room the orb song, a 1992 ambient house single by the band the orb blue room unwritten law album, 1994. The blue room is a cruel, bleak analysis of a love affair that goes terribly wrong, written in evocative and pareddown prose. About the blue room one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. The blue room offers an intense study of a man who unwittingly creates his own hell and becomes trapped, with no possibility of escape. The recently reissued psychological thriller the blue room, about a couple whose torrid affair leads to double murder, is also considered one of his best. Jun 27, 2018 the blue room by georges simenon apparently, simenon thought that his maigret novels were his job, while it was his other crime novels that were his passion.
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As director, coadaptor and star, amalric has made the book into a film that is splendidly taut, forcefully understated. Ive been finding it hard to do anything other than reread game of thrones, so in order to take a break from historical fantasy i decided to read another short piece of translated fiction. Feb 16, 2016 the blue room by georges simenon, 97801499041, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Linda coverdale this is a new translation of simenon s gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. May 16, 2014 yet the blue room, which combines simenons taste for mystery with his taste for sex he once claimed to have slept with 10,000 women, most of them prostitutes, is less of a whodunit than an. Discussion of themes and motifs in georges simenons the blue room. He published his first book in 1931 and his last in 1972. Though a tad less of a psychological work than simenon s other roman novel, dirty snow. Among his finest essays on the wages of sex is his 1964 novel the blue room. Georges simenon 19031989 is one of the most widely read and published novelists of all time. The blue room by georges simenon translated by linda coverdale.
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It centers on a passionate, obsessive affair between a. He wrote more than two hundred books under his own name including seventyfive jules maigret novels, for which he is best known, and more than two hundred under a series of pseudonyms. Order of georges simenon books georges simenon 19031989 was a belgian author of crime fiction, best known for his novels featuring his character jules maigret. Mathieu amalrics blue room period the boston globe.
Beyond my interest in most things simenon, i was curious to compare the two because im still looking for a movie that accurately reproduces a book. In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Yet the blue room, which combines simenons taste for mystery with his taste for sex he once claimed to have slept with 10,000 women, most of them prostitutes, is less of a whodunit than an. The blue room is a beautifully structured novel, simenon expertly teasing readers along. This is especially the case in the nonmaigret books that simenon called. Master novelist georges simenons critically acclaimed tale of the destructive power of lust and guilt he felt no resentment towards andree for biting his lip. The blue room harvesthbj book simenon, georges isbn 01562672 6 copies separate blue room crime masterworks s. In the context of their lovemaking, it had its place. Luckily for me, i liked simenons novel much more than the garnier novel ive read so far. What is more, the major characters get new names, like tony becoming julien and andree becoming esther. Simenon is the author of close to 200 novels in his native language of french, most of which have been translated into english. The blue room by georges simenon and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Discussion of themes and motifs in georges simenon s the blue room. At the end of the blue room 2014, julien mathieu amalric and his mistress esther stephanie cleau are both arrested for conspiring together to poison juliens wife, delphine lea drucker. The recently reissued psychological thriller the blue room, about a couple whose torrid affair leads. Vain, womanising tony and passionate, manipulative andree met eight.
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