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SIMENON Georges (1903-1989)
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SIMENON Georges (1903-1989)
Autograph letter signed to actress Berthe BOVY,
Arizona, February 21, 1949| 1 page in-4 on personal paper at her address, with envelope.
Nice letter from Simenon who tells about the birth of Pedigree and some anecdotes about actress Berthe Bovy: "Dear great lady, because you are the only one in France to be a very great lady of the arts and a very great lady indeed. Colette and you. Unfortunately, I have not met you very often, but do you know that I met your father several times at Georges Isa's house, when I started in Paris in 1921? That's how much I've heard about you - and like an idol! It is kind of you, and fraternal, to send me a word about Pedigree and this word pleases me more than pretentious criticisms. It is not a work of art, indeed.
It wasn't even supposed to be published| during the war, when my son was a five-year-old toddler and I didn't know if I would be able to tell him his family history later, I wrote it down for him. And now, by chance, by ricochet, it pleases you too. I am happy and flattered. I too will be happy to chat with you and I can assure you that I will not pass through Paris without ringing your doorbell twice.
Do you know that your father prepared me in a way for what is happening to me today on a smaller scale? Today, it is the women who assail me and who feel, if not a literary vocation (which is a lot) at least the taste to be a cowboy in Arizona! But all that will be part of our chatter. I can't wait, though, to tell you the admiration I've always had for you..."
Pedigree is an autobiographical novel published on October 15, 1948 following a misleading medical diagnosis that he had heart problems and little time to live. Simenon then felt the need to tell his life story to his son Marc through a novel. When he was released, Simenon was attacked by relatives who recognized themselves. Between 1949 and 1952 he lost three libel suits. He expurgated the incriminated passages from his book and published a new edition in December 1952.
Autograph letter signed to actress Berthe BOVY,
Arizona, February 21, 1949| 1 page in-4 on personal paper at her address, with envelope.
Nice letter from Simenon who tells about the birth of Pedigree and some anecdotes about actress Berthe Bovy: "Dear great lady, because you are the only one in France to be a very great lady of the arts and a very great lady indeed. Colette and you. Unfortunately, I have not met you very often, but do you know that I met your father several times at Georges Isa's house, when I started in Paris in 1921? That's how much I've heard about you - and like an idol! It is kind of you, and fraternal, to send me a word about Pedigree and this word pleases me more than pretentious criticisms. It is not a work of art, indeed.
It wasn't even supposed to be published| during the war, when my son was a five-year-old toddler and I didn't know if I would be able to tell him his family history later, I wrote it down for him. And now, by chance, by ricochet, it pleases you too. I am happy and flattered. I too will be happy to chat with you and I can assure you that I will not pass through Paris without ringing your doorbell twice.
Do you know that your father prepared me in a way for what is happening to me today on a smaller scale? Today, it is the women who assail me and who feel, if not a literary vocation (which is a lot) at least the taste to be a cowboy in Arizona! But all that will be part of our chatter. I can't wait, though, to tell you the admiration I've always had for you..."
Pedigree is an autobiographical novel published on October 15, 1948 following a misleading medical diagnosis that he had heart problems and little time to live. Simenon then felt the need to tell his life story to his son Marc through a novel. When he was released, Simenon was attacked by relatives who recognized themselves. Between 1949 and 1952 he lost three libel suits. He expurgated the incriminated passages from his book and published a new edition in December 1952.