Under the generic title The Romans the world, Omnibus editions published in two thick volumes twelve works of Simenon fed by his visits between 1928 and 1935 in the Middle East, Africa, Central America and the remote Galapagos Islands. In the first volume, and found Coup de lune (1933), People across (1933), The Customers Avrenos (1935), Ward negro (1935), 45 ° in the shade (1936) and during Long (1936). In the second: The White bespectacled (1937), Those of thirst (1938), banana Tourists (1938), A Crime in Gabon (1938), The Elder Ferchaux (1945) and The Stowaway (1947). And those are the novels of disillusionment and shattered illusions, the themes dear to Simenon as the leak, the perception of others and, in this instance, blinding white man's land colonization.
. "I've never tried the exotic, Simenon wrote in A man like any other . I never got used in my books. For me, men were men everywhere, and whether black or half-naked Tahitian flower, in sarong, I was not looking for the difference but rather similarity. "
These two volumes are presented and discussed by Jean-Baptiste Baronian.
Omnibus, 832 & 800 pp., 26 € each.
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