New York Review Books Classics: The Man Who Watched Trains Go by (Paperback)

from HearTheWindSing

While discussing Black Swan with friends the other day, I realized this novel has a similarity or two with Darren Aronofsky movies. Remember those movies ( Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Wrestler, Black Swan ) where we have one or more characters going on with their lives when somehow things begin ...

from William345

This was diverting, though not my favorite of the six or so Simenons I have read so far, all on the New York Review Books imprint. Kees Popinga, a buttoned down manager of a ships chandlery in Holland, goes on a bit of a rampage after his boss tells him that he has run the business into the groun...

from FPdC

This book is the portuguese translation of the french original L'homme qui regardait passer les trains. A lovely story by the creator of the famous inspector Maigret. A fraudulent bankrupcy in a Groningen firm turns the respectable middle class Kees Popinga into an outcast in Paris, where his inn...

from HadriantheBlind

Simenon was one of a long tradition of Francograph writers who churn out good books with relative ease - Balzac, Zola, Dumas(but he cheated and used ghostwriters). Simenon was used to the speed of some 10-40 per year! Makes Vollmann look like a obsessive haiku poet who only releases one volume ev...

from smik

THE MAN WHO WATCHED THE TRAINS GO BY is one of Simenon's "psychological novels". At first Kees Popinga seems absolutely normal but something snaps when he finds out that his boss is going to fake suicide and that the company he works for is going under, taking his life savings with it. It now see...