One might exclaim, they found each other, upon hearing the story. On one side, an American who had ended up stranded in Paris, keeping afloat with swindles. On the other, the spoiled offspring of a bourgeois family from the French capital on the Seine, who had chosen the same path. One of them would not survive the encounter.
As Simenon fans, we don't get to see quite as much as we would like. You don't even stand at the fence, you stand in front of a wall and have to rely on birds to carry little breadcrumbs over this barrier. LINE-UP CINÉMA has revealed on its website what the movie »Belle«, which is currently being filmed with Charlotte Gainsbourg, is about.
Anyone who is disturbed after reading the story reacts normally - that was my final sentence in the description of »The snow was dirty«. The intensity of Simenon's story remains and if you want to get through an ugly description of events quickly, you are probably better off with the painted version. Readers can't expect pretty pictures.
First a late meeting in a café, where the person who invited us said nothing. On the way home, someone tried to put a bullet in Maigret's fur. He wished things would go better. The next day, he walked across the Square d'Avroy in the morning. The translation reads: »[...] of the Square d'Avroy, which Maigret had just crossed [...]«. The translator has probably been taken for a ride.
Some time ago, we reported on the work of the journalist Pem. The man had left Germany for reasons and finally settled in England, from where he wrote about cultural affairs - published in the German exile press in New York or in the Viennese »Weltpresse«. And in the latter he wrote about Simenon.