7/8/2023 0 Comments Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon![]() ![]() A recent issue of Bookforum has a fantastic article by Luc Sante on Simenon that opens with this provocative image: As equally as off-putting as the sheer number of titles he wrote was the question of how good any of these books could be if he was cranking them out one after another after another.Īnd not just cranking them out, but making a show of it. What most caught my attention-and most intimidated me in terms of picking one of these up-was a statement from the íAbout the Authorë section: íGeorges Simenon (1903-1989), wrote over 400 novels and collections of short stories and sold hundreds of millions of copies of his books in 55 languages.ë Four hundred novels! Sure, Joyce Carol Oates is prolific, but she doesn’t hold a candle to Simenon. I had never heard of Georges Simenon before New York Review Books brought out Dirty Snow and Tropic Moon back a few years ago. ![]()
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