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  • Engels
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  • 9781612190051
  • 08 november 2011
  • Adobe ePub
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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 attaché, 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.


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Hoofdauteur
Geroges Simenon
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Melville House

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Daphne Woodward

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  • Relentless, effortless masterpiece

    Time wise, the novels of Georges Simenon often last only a few days, but his masterful use of memories and flashbacks provide unusual depth to his often driven, obsessed main protagonists. “The President” (1958) has been translated afresh and describes in painstaking detail the unbroken spirit and thought processes of a retired, but still feared French politician. He is 82 and is in a physically fragile state whilst his mind still works like clockwork. Surrounded by staff who look after his safety and wellbeing, he lives in a converted farm on the Normandy coast surrounded by books inside whose pages he has hidden his stock of incriminating material on former colleagues and rivals. He still rises at 5:30 on the off chance of being called to rescue the nation once more, to do his lifelong duty and take charge again. He served as a minister 22 times, eight of which as prime minister .
    Written in 1957, before France finally became a stable political entity in 1959 under Charles de Gaulle, this is a compelling novel about French politics, rule by coalition, role of the press and blackmail. It is also a fine character study of a man without compromise, assuming full personal responsibility again and again, ready to do whatever is necessary to prevent France from sliding into chaos. Stunning finish. One question: why this title? After all, a job he cherished, but never attained. Great read, great author.

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