Pedigree
About the book:
Pedigree Book
Author: Georges Simenon
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Publisher: NYRB Classics; Main edition
Publish date: (July 20, 2010)
ISBN-10: 1590173511
ISBN-13: 978-1590173510
Pages: 560 eBook pages can be different
Language: English
Genres: Mystery, Bildungsroman, Literary fiction
Review
Pedigree is Georges Simenon’s longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the initial pages to André Gide, who urged him to turn them into a novel. The result was, Simenon later quipped, a book in which everything is true but nothing is accurate. Spanning the years from the beginning of the century, with its political instability and terrorist threats, to the end of the First World War in 1918, Pedigree is an epic of everyday existence in all its messy unfinished intensity and density, a story about the coming-of-age of a precocious and curious
boy and the coming to be of the modern world.
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