The President

Georges Simenon

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Melting Pot Press
02 January 2012

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Neversink

"The second Simenon to be reprinted in the Melville House Neversink Library, The President represents an ongoing project of rediscovering and re-publishing a select number of long-unavailable titles by this stupefyingly prolific French master.

Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a ""tour de force""

At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement-self exile-on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from statesman and biographers. In his library is the self-condemning, handwritten confession of the premier's former attache, Chalamont, hidden between the pages of a sumptuously produced work of privately printed pornography-a confession that the premier himself had dictated and forced Chalamont to sign. Now the long-thwarted Chalamont has been summoned to form a new coalition in the wake of the government's collapse. The premier alone possesses the secret of Chalamont's guilt, of his true character-and has publicly vowed- ""He'll never be Premier as long as I'm alive... Nor when I'm dead, either."" Inspired by French Premier Georges Clemenceau, The President is a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a probing account of the decline of power."

By: Georges Simenon
Imprint: Melting Pot Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9781935554622
ISBN 10: 193555462X
Series: Neversink
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 02 January 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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It is impossible not to admire the accuracy, the unfailing psychological insight, the unfaltering eye for the small but convincing human details that he brings to his stories of men obsessed. -Life magazine (1958) Since most Simenon characters are driven and obsessive, their actions are outside the constraints of ordinary life and, as such, are of striking ethical and psychological interest... Simenon has often been compared to Dostoyevsky... -New York Times

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