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INTERVIEWER
What are some of the problems you have dealt with often and expect to deal with in the future?
SIMENON
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication. I mean communication between two people. The fact that we are I don’t know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world. When I was a young boy I was afraid of it. I would almost scream because of it. It gave me such a sensation of solitude, of loneliness. That is a theme I have taken I don’t know how many times. But I know it will come again. Certainly it will come again.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| T. S. Eliot, Colette, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anatole France, André Gide, Nikolai Gogol, Oscar Wilde |
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