Pedigree – $275
by rgonzalezr
Pedigree Pedigree is Georges Simenon’s longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the initial pages to André Gide, who urged him to turn them into a novel. The result was, Simenon later quipped, a book in which everything is true but […]
Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2010, Belgian, Belgium, Europe, Fiction, Nyrb, Siglo XX, Simenon, World