When I was old
Subtitle: Simenon on Simenon
By: Translated by Helen Eustis.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng; fre
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Quand j'étais vieux
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 343
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Simenon, Georges, 1903-; Simenon, Georges, 1903-; Novelists, Belgian -- 20th century -- Biography
Description: "In 1960, 1961, and 1962, for personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty. Soon I shall be sixty-seven and I have not felt old for a long time. I no longer feel the need to write in notebooks, and those that I did not use I've given to my children." -- Preface.
Notes: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Autobiographical.