When I Was Old
  • Published: 29 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241213131
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $22.99
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When I Was Old

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An intimate, unsparing and often moving autobiographical insight into Georges Simenon's extraordinary life

In 1960, 1961 and 1962, for personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks.

Here in notebooks that were never intended for publication, Simenon reflects on his life in some of the most candid revelations ever written. He reflects on his past - his childhood in Liege, the wild parties in Paris and travels around the world - and also examines his motivations and his attitude to work.
  • Published: 29 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241213131
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

Also by Georges Simenon

The Cat
Stan the Killer
The Widow Couderc
The Hatter's Ghosts
The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret
The Venice Train
The People Opposite
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Praise for When I Was Old

One of the most poignant autobiographies.

New York Time Magazine, Leslie Garis

Fascinating

Sunday Telegraph

Makes you feel he's chatting to you as he would to a good friend. The Simenon of the statistics (books written, women bedded) recedes into the background and Simenon the man comes to the fore.

Anthony Thuillier, Irish Independent
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