THE ITEM:
"DE TEDDYBEER"
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THE WRITER:
GEORGES SIMENON
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (3 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have been printed.
He is best known, however, for his 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Commissaire Maigret. The first novel in the series, Pietr-le-Letton, was serialized in 1930 and appeared in book form in 1931; the last one, Maigret and Monsieur Charles, was published in 1972. The Maigret novels were translated into all major languages and several of them were turned into films and radio plays. Three films were made in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starring Jean Gabin: Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case; Maigret Sets A Trap; and Margret Sees Red. Three television series (1960–63, 1992–93 and 2016-), have been made in Great Britain (the first with Rupert Davies in the title role, the second with Michael Gambon and the third with Rowan Atkinson), one in Italy in four different seasons for a total of 36 episodes (1964–72) starring Gino Cervi; and two in France: (1967–90) starring Jean Richard and (1991–2005) starring Bruno Cremer
1942 was the year his novel La Veuve Couderc was published at around the same time as Camus' The Stranger. Both novels contain a similar main character and themes, and Simenon was upset that Camus' work went on to greater acclaim.
During his "American" period, Simenon reached the height of his creative powers, and several novels of those years were inspired by the context in which they were written (Trois chambres à Manhattan (1946), Maigret à New York (1947), Maigret se fâche (1947)).
Simenon also wrote a large number of "psychological novels" (what the French refer to as "romans durs"), such as The Strangers in the House (1940), La neige était sale (1948), or Le fils (1957), as well as several autobiographical works, in particular Je me souviens (1945), Pedigree (1948), Mémoires intimes (1981).
In 1966, Simenon was given the MWA's highest honour, the Grand Master Award.
In 2003, the collection La Pléiade (inspiration for the Library of America) has included 21 of Simenon's novels, in two volumes. The task of selecting the novels and the preparation of the notes and analyses was performed by two Simenon specialists, Professor Jacques Dubois, President of the Centre for Georges Simenon Studies at the Université de Liège, and his assistant Benoît Denis.
According to the UNESCO's Index Translationum, Simenon is the seventeenth-most-often-translated author, the most-translated Belgian author.
(WIKIPEDIA)
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COLOPHON:
ORIGINAL TITLE:
L'OURS EN PELUCHE
TRANSLATED BY:
K.H. ROMIJN
COVER:
DICK BRUNA
THE PUBLISHER:
ZWARTE BEERTJES NR. 410
A.W. BRUNA & ZOON
UTRECHT
THE PRINTER:
BOSCH
UTRECHT
THE YEAR:
1962
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SIZED
CENTIMETERS: 11,5 X 17,5
PAGES: 192
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CONDITION
GENERAL:
REASONABLE TO GOOD, SMALL STICKER OF BOOKSELLER ON FIRST PAGE
COVER:
BIT RUBBED, DIRTY, DISCOLOURED, CORNERS AND EDGES LIGHTLY BUMPED
SPINE:
IDEM
PAGES:
DISCOLOURED, HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE
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