title: Philip Roth Considered: The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
author:  Steven Milowitz 
description: "Recommended especially for upper-division undergraduates."<BR>-Choice, April, 2001 <BR>
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  #### PENGUIN CLASSICS
  
  
  ### _Maigret and the Informer_
  
  
  ‘I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov’
  
  
  – William Faulkner
  
  
  ‘A truly wonderful writer … marvellously readable – lucid, simple, absolutely
  in tune with the world he creates’
  
  
  – Muriel Spark
  
  
  ‘Few writers have ever conveyed with such a sure touch, the bleakness of human
  life’
  
  
  – A. N. Wilson
  
  
  ‘One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century … Simenon was unequalled
  at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at
  absorbing us obsessively in his stories’
  
  
  – _Guardian_
  
  
  ‘A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were part of it’
  
  
  – Peter Ackroyd
  
  
  ‘The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature’
  
  
  – André Gide
  
  
  ‘Superb … The most addictive of writers … A unique teller of tales’
  
  
  – _Observer_
  
  
  ‘The mysteries of the human personality are revealed in all their
  disconcerting complexity’
  
  
  – Anita Brookner
  
  
  ‘A writer who, more than any 