Georges Simenon: The Man Who Watched the Trains Go by (Romans Durs), Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go by (Romans Durs)
- Translation:
- Siân Reynolds
- Publisher:
- Picador USA, 06/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250425911
- Item number:
- 12428740
- Volume:
- 256 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 191 x 127 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 23.6.2026
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
A private confession leads an ordinary Dutchman to abandon his family for a life on the run in Georges Simenon's existentialist masterpiece.
Kees Popinga has always played by society's rules. A dutiful husband and father, he owns a house in a nice neighborhood and holds down a responsible job in the shipping industry. Fantasies of escape, of rebellion, are kept carefully contained-until the night Kees's boss makes a private confession. Having recklessly bankrupted the firm, he plans to fake his own death.
Kees is not only shocked; he's exhilarated. Abandoning his home and family, he is soon a violent fugitive, wanted by police in Amsterdam and Paris. Has he gone insane, or was his compliant former self a masquerade? Infused with Georges Simenon's gift for moral complexity, The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By is a haunting existentialist masterpiece.
Biography (Georges Simenon)
Georges Simenon, geb. am 13. Februar 1903 in Liège/Belgien, begann nach abgebrochener Buchhändlerlehre als Lokalreporter. Nach einer Zeit in Paris als Privatsekretär eines Marquis wohnte er auf seinem Boot, mit dem er bis nach Lappland fuhr, Reiseberichte und erste Maigret-Romane verfassend. Schaffenswut und viele Ortswechsel bestimmten 30 Jahre lang sein Leben, bis er sich am Genfersee niederließ, wo er nach 75 Maigret-Romanen und über 120 Non-Maigrets beschloss, statt Romane ausgreifende autobiographische Arbeiten (wie die monumentalen Intimen Memoiren ) zu diktieren. Er starb am 4. September 1989 in Lausanne.
