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In the world of the novel, Georges Simenon was a Mozart. He quit school for good as a teenager, never participated in a writing workshop, never enrolled in a writing program and never attended a writing class. With his innate ear for language and dialogue, eye for detail and feel for storytelling, a Leggi tutto

- Ladies and gentlemen, watch carefully. Here's Frank, a young punk who lives in his mother's brothel in occupied France. He lies, drinks, steals, does black market business with the German officers, commits murder just for fun. Yes, feel free to touch him, he fucks his mother's girls every night wh Leggi tutto

3.5 stars “For Frank, killing his first man at the age of nineteen is a loss of virginity no more remarkable than the first. And as with the first, it is unpremeditated. It just happens. It is as if a moment comes when it is both indispensable and natural to make a decision that has in fact been made Leggi tutto

This is my first of Simeon’s ‘roman durs.’ The prolific writer wrote 117 of them. The phrase means ‘hard’ novels or ‘harrowing’ novels and generally the phrase specifically applies to Simenon, otherwise known for his 75 Inspector Maigret novels. This novel, Dirty Snow, is a tale of pointless evil. Wh Leggi tutto

ENGLISH ( Dirty Snow ) / ITALIANO Noir colors for this journey into the abyss of the 19-year-old Frank Friedmaier. Do you remember or have you known Rodiòn Romànovič Raskòl'nikov, the troubled 23-year-old protagonist of Crime and Punishment? Well, it seems that the Frank Friedmaier's dark path is son o Leggi tutto