Bairro Negro

Georges Simenon (Liège, 1903 - Lausanne, 1989) began his career as a reporter and author of popular novels, which he published under various pseudonyms. In 1931, writing under his own name for the first time, he published... Pietr-le-lettonwhich introduced readers to the celebrated Parisian police commissioner Jules Maigret, a character he would revisit in novels and short stories over the next four decades, as well as the broader body of his work, composed especially of literary creations that the author would call... Romans durs - difficult novels, because of their demanding writing style - forged his reputation as one of the essential writers of the 20th century. Translated into more than fifty languages, read by several generations, the Romans durs They have inspired dozens of film adaptations by directors such as Jean Renoir, Michel Audiard, Claude Chabrol, and Béla Tarr, and constitute one of the... corpus most notable and enduring literary works in the Western canon.