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"MEMOIRES INTIMES" BY GEORGES SIMENON: THE FOUR-SIDED VIEWPOINT OF A ONE-SIDED NARRATOR

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There is misrepresentation of both the subject and the nature of the text resulting from the author's inaccurate representation of the work to the reader. This study illustrates how this distortion is the result of the author's splitting his first-person narrative voice into four autonomous and antagonistic entities. The presentation and analysis of numerous contradictions and conflicts found in the separate accounts and viewpoints provided by each narrative entity substantiates the thesis that the author is misleading and manipulating the reader in an effort to validate false claims with regard to the objectivity of the text and its contents. Contrary to the author's claims, the text is not an impartial biographical tribute to the memory of his late daughter, Marie-Georges Simenon, but a prejudicial, self-justifying, autobiographical narrative detailing the long-standing feud between the author and his second wife, Denyse Simenon-Ouimet.

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ProQuest

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English

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Ph.D. American University 1985.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1961/thesesdissertations:2157

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Part of thesis digitization project, awaiting processing.

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