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At the Heart of the Mystery
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19930627
Author:Benjamin Forgey
THE MAN WHO WASN'T MAIGRET A Portrait of Georges Simenon By Patrick Marnham Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 346 pp. $27.50
IN THE 1890s during his struggle to create a monument to Honore de Balzac the sculptor Auguste Rodin conceived a striding nude figure, very different from the final, robed version that came to be placed on the Boulevard Raspail in Paris. In the earlier study an eruption of prodigious proportion issued from the figure's penis, forming a cone between the legs - a visual metaphor linking the writer's fecundity and vision to the creative forces of nature.
With only a dash of irony ...
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