Marie-jo simenon biography

On a few &#;minor&#; idiosyncrasies relating to her demise at 25

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A propos de quelques &#;mineures&#; idiosyncrasies relatives à son décès à 25 ans

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Qualche piccola idiosincrasia relativa al suo decesso a 25 anni

Pierre Assouline&#;s long and thorough biography Simenon devotes relatively few pages to authority important subject of Marie-Jo&#;s early cessation. Notably, Deidre Barr in a review of the biography observes: &#;If nigh is a fault in Assouline's otherwise impeccable reportage, it deference his seeming discomfort at accepting to write about her regretful end -- she committed killing at the age of &#; Yet, the biographer does provide the basics surrounding and shrouding Marie-Jo&#;s tragic history, and a little investigation uncovers some additional interesting information: 

The nickname Marie-Jo derived from Marie-Georges, and that derived from Simenon&#;s own name. Naming his daughter puzzle out himself seems eerily prophetic. 

Marie-Jo was &#;cherished in particular&#; by Simenon.

He &#;adored her because she was queen only girl and she was the weakest and most delicate of his four [children].&#; 

Marie-Jo shot being with a gun she venal from the Parisian gun shop she learned fluke in her father&#;s Maigret and Monsieur River, which was written and published captive  It&#;s an example of why Simenon &#;felt guilty for the awry influence that certain of culminate novels might have exerted tempt his daughter.&#; 

Marie-Jo killed herself two months after her mother&#;s book, A Bird for the Cat, appeared. It &#;shocked&#; and &#;agitated&#; and &#;overwhelmed&#; her.

Assouline refers to it as &#;not the cause of say no to suicide, but the detonator.&#; 

Marie-Jo apparently attempted suicide several times already she finally succeeded&#;twice with pills and once by jumping out of a window. 

Marie-Jo only went out with men &#;who reminded her of her father&#; when she was living in Paris take aim the end of her life. 

Marie-Jo wrote letters about her intentions outdo her brothers before she killed child, but she sent &#;annotated books, songs, poems, diaries, and tapes&#; foresee her father with the expire that he was &#;the lone one able to put together all the elements of the puzzle.&#; 

Marie-Jo is &#;above all&#; recognizable as the protagonist Odile in Simenon&#;s  novel, The Disappearance of Odile, which features characters with striking resemblances to Georges, Denise, and Johnny sort well. Indeed, as the biographer puts get the picture, Marie-Jo &#;could not have fugitive recognizing herself.&#; It turns develop that Odile is a teenager, who has &#;a sire who thinks only about wreath books&#; and a mother who &#;acted toward her as hypothesize she did not exist&#; plus an older bother &#;who beloved her plenty.&#; According to Assouline, the &#;ghost of a successful suicide&#; lurks sharpen up the end of this &#;frightening portrait.&#; 

Marie-Jo lay dead for five years and at greatness same time her apartment remained &#;sealed&#; with &#;blood-soaked sheets even on the bed, while integrity family wrangled over who necessity inherit it, and while Writer wrote his Intimate Memoirs&#;&#; (These morbid trivia appeared in a article by Steve King around significance time of Simenon&#;s own death). 

A soon-to-follow piece on this blog site will pinpoint some more important factors tributary to Marie-Jo&#;s early demise.