The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (New York Review Books Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590171497 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He's going to turn over a new leaf—though there will be hell to pay.. Kees Popinga is a solid Dutch burgher whose idea of a night on the town is a game of chess at his club. But one night this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Or so it has always appeared. Before, he had looked on impassively as the trains to the outside world swept by; now he catches the first train he can to Amsterdam. Not long after that, he commits murder.Kees Popinga is tired of being Kees Popinga
"How precarious is identity!" according to Patto. Kees Popinga is manager of the largest ship outfitter in Dutch Frisia. His house and furnishings are of the highest quality. His wife and two children are just what they should be.Then one evening he sees his boss, Julius de Coster, getting drunk in a bar. De Coster informs him that the company will be bankrupt the next day, and Popinga and family will be on the street.De Coster confesses to be. "There isn't any truth, you know?" Kees Popinga, Dutch factotum in Julius de Coster the Younger's shipping firm for 17 years, lives proudly in the nicest and cleanest development in Groningen with his wife he doesn't love and his two children he doesn't understand. One winter night, utterly bored as usual, he decides to take a walk to the dock to check out one of the ships his firm was to outfit to sail the next day. From that l. Nihilism is not only despair and negation Lonya but above all the desire to despair and to negate. Camus.Despair and negation predominate in Georges Simenon's "The Man Who Watched Trains Go By", a book that I considered to be darker than noir.Simenon was nothing if not prolific in both his literary and public life. Born in Belgium in 1903, Simenon turned out hundreds of novels. Simenon's obsession with writing caused him to break off an affa
Simenon was legendary both for his literary skill–four or five books every year for 40 years–and his sexual capacity, at least to hear him tell it. So far, the Review has published Tropic Moon, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, Red Lights, Dirty Snow and Three Bedrooms in Manhattan; The Strangers in the House comes out in November. Simenon's tone and dispassionate examination of humanity was echoed by Patricia Highsmith, who dispensed with the justice. What we can speak of with some certainty are the novels, which are tough, rigorously unsentimental and full of rage, duplicity and, occasionally, justice. Try one, and you'll want to read more.&r