The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Georges Simenon's The Mahé Circle.
Penguin Classics have started publishing the complete Maigret-series in new translations -- a wonderful undertaking -- but I've always been more partial to the other half of his œuvre, the so-called romans durs (as well as the hors catégorie works such as the Mémoires intimes (not in the abbreviated English translation ...)), and admirably they've been paying some attention to these as well.
The Mahé Circle -- first published in 1946 -- was, astonishingly, never translated into English before; it finally came out, in Siân Reynolds' translation, in the UK last year and has now made its way to the US.
You can understand that some of Simenon's prodigious output might fall through the cracks, but this corrects a major oversight: this is a major work. Brutally bleak -- probably why it was previously neglected -- but very well done.
Penguin Classics have started publishing the complete Maigret-series in new translations -- a wonderful undertaking -- but I've always been more partial to the other half of his œuvre, the so-called romans durs (as well as the hors catégorie works such as the Mémoires intimes (not in the abbreviated English translation ...)), and admirably they've been paying some attention to these as well.
The Mahé Circle -- first published in 1946 -- was, astonishingly, never translated into English before; it finally came out, in Siân Reynolds' translation, in the UK last year and has now made its way to the US.
You can understand that some of Simenon's prodigious output might fall through the cracks, but this corrects a major oversight: this is a major work. Brutally bleak -- probably why it was previously neglected -- but very well done.