Frederick's Reviews > The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

I read the translation by Marc Romano and D. Thin, published in 2005 by New York Review Of Books.
What strikes me about this is that Georges Simenon, in this 1938 novel, managed to write something covering the same ground as many another modernist work without it being, in any sense, an indictment of society. The antihero at the center is as well-drawn as any I've ever run across, but his self-deception is clearly his own fault.