― emekars (emekars), Saturday, 9 September 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 September 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 9 September 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)
Anybody know if "dirty snow" is any good?
― askance johnson (sdownes), Saturday, 9 September 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)
Penguin's publishing all 75 Maigret novels in new translations starting in November :D
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Monday, 15 April 2013 09:27 (twelve years ago)
:D
― conrad, Monday, 15 April 2013 12:29 (twelve years ago)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/9829388/British-creative-agency-wins-rights-to-Simenon-works.html ?
― conrad, Monday, 15 April 2013 12:33 (twelve years ago)
fwiw, the first ten are:
Pietr The LatvianThe Late Monsieur GalletThe Hanged Man Of Saint-PholienThe Driver Of The ProvidenceThe Yellow DogThe Night At The CrossroadsA Crime In HollandThe Sailor's Rendez-vousA Man's HeadThe Dancer At The Gai-Moulin
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Monday, 15 April 2013 12:33 (twelve years ago)
Do I really want to read all these again? I think so!
― Brad C., Monday, 15 April 2013 13:40 (twelve years ago)
Next month in NYC there's a rather substantial series of films based on his work, runs quite the gamut of eras, nations and styles:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/41318
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:14 (twelve years ago)
Found the Bela Tarr film in a sale bin for $4 just yesterday.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:12 (twelve years ago)
His films are kinda dark (literally!) when you watch them on the teevee.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:16 (twelve years ago)
has anyone seen the film w/ Charles Laughton as Maigret? (based on A Man's Head) dir by Burgess Meredith.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041628/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 17:57 (ten years ago)
which Maigret book is the description here?
I can take from my shelf ten or twelve Maigrets and it doesn't take five or ten pages, as in Balzac, or twenty, as in Dickens (who is really slow in getting going; so is Balzac): Simenon does it in two or three paragraphs. There's a Maigret novel which opens with a loud noise. At three in the morning in Pigalle, the old Paris red-light district, a nightclub owner is pulling down the metal shade, to close up. Out of that single noise, focused against the first milk cart, focused against the steps of those who go home to sleep at that time and those who start coming into Les Halles to get the food ready for the day, Simenon gives you not only the city, not only something about France which no historian can surpass, but the two or three people who will matter in the story are already before you. Simenon somehow notes that the steps of the man who pulls down the shade, as they go away from the nightclub, have a curious hesitant drag. And there you are, that's the first important clue in the story. Now that is the mysterium tremendum of the creation of the autonomous persona.
― Cunga, Monday, 27 July 2015 00:17 (ten years ago)
feel like you could write a whole dissertation on the difference between these two covers
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51241408904_71dd665fe1_b.jpghttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51QKd6f-DeL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 July 2024 21:13 (one year ago)