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Red Lights (novel)

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Red Lights
First edition
AuthorGeorges Simenon
Original titleFeux rouges
TranslatorNorman Denny
LanguageFrench
GenreRoman dur
PublisherPresses de la Cite
Publication date
1953
Media typePrint
Pages154 (NYRB)

Feux rouges (Red Lights) is the title of a short novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is one of the author's roman durs or "hard novels".

The novel is divided into eight chapters, and is written using the third-person narrative mode.

Plot

English language editions

This novel and The Watchmaker of Everton, both translated by Norman Denny, were published together in 1955 by Hamish Hamilton as Danger Ahead.[1]

It was reissued by New York Review Books in 2006, with an introduction by Anita Brookner.

References

  1. ^ Carter, David. The Pocket Essential Georges Simenon. The Pocket Essentials, 2003.

Simenon, Georges: Red Lights. New York: New York Review Books, 2006.