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1. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2022/09/19The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret - The New Yorker

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   Sep 12, 2022 · The British playwright David Hare, who adapted a Maigret book for the stage, insists that Simenon—being Belgian-born and so an outsider—disdained the usual French prattle about gastronomy, and...

2. www.nytimes.com › the-case-of-georges-simenonThe Case of Georges Simenon - The New York Times

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   In Simenon’s non-Maigret “thrillers,” the central character is lured from the cocoon of himself into a wider world of sexual and philosophical peril.

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   Jan 10, 2020 · Simenon confessed that “old Maigret . . . resembles me in certain points”. However, in his protagonist he painted no self-portrait.

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5. www.penguin.co.uk › articles › 2020How Georges Simenon reinvented the detective novel with Maigret

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   Jan 10, 2020 · How Georges Simenon reinvented the detective novel with Maigret. Hyper-prolific yet critically adored, the Belgian writer took crime novels into new terrority with his 75 books series – newly translated this week – winning devoted fans from Muriel Spark to Alfred Hitchcock in the process. John Self 10 January 2020.

6. crimereads.com › maigret-simenon-gauntlettThe Magic of Maigret - CrimeReads

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   Sep 19, 2024 · Possibly apocryphal, the story goes that when Alfred Hitchcock once telephoned Georges Simenon, his assistant answered and promptly informed the legendary director that Georges was otherwise engaged – he had just sat down to write his new novel.

7. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk › culture › 41718Simenon: the writer who put judgment on trial - Prospect

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   Sep 21, 2018 · The reason is that Maigret’s investigations were, in fact, Simenon’s own—both were struggling to come to terms with the same things: with people’s failings, with their inability to live as they knew they should, with the darkness that inhabits us all.

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   Why did Simenon write Maigret?

   • Maigret, written in June 1933, was intended to be the last of the series and ended with the detective in retirement. Simenon called the Maigret novels "semi-literary" and he wanted to establish himself as a serious writer. He stated his aim was to win the Nobel Prize for Literature by 1947. [ 38 ]

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   How does Maigret feel about France?

   • Nonetheless, a note of defeated France—the France of endless compromise—fills the book’s slow-paced chronicle: Maigret spends the early part of the book walking round and round a music pavilion, staring at an elegant and solitary woman who later turns up dead. Beneath the standard Simenon devices, one senses an allegory of exhaustion and guilt.

   The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret - The New Yorker

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   Why does Maigret sigh?

   • The books are filled with procedural matters—confronted with a wave of rapes, Maigret sighs primarily because he does not have enough officers to placate the press without weakening the service—but, against the usual run of the American police procedural, it is never the system itself that is annoying, only those who would undermine it.

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   Was Georges Simenon a good detective?

   • Georges Simenon was a high-living libertine; his greatest creation was a man of moral restraint. Yet the writer’s excesses are a clue to his detective’s successes. Adam Gopnik reviews the Inspector Maigret series, which includes “The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien” and “Maigret and the Headless Corpse.”

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   Why does Maigret have a blank elision?

   • Maigret knows that people want to tell their stories, and, if prompted, will. Listening, not inquiring, is the detective’s gift; inner life, in these mysteries, manifests only as fragmented speech. Given that premise, the novel’s pages could be filmed without a single elision, so blankly empirical is the whole.

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   Does Maigret solve crimes?

   • After the early novels where he was still finding his form, Maigret turns away from twists and gimmicks and focus instead on crime as a problem of human nature – as much modern detective fiction now does. 'He doesn’t solve crimes, he solves people,' as one critic put it.

   How Georges Simenon reinvented the detective novel with Maigret

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9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Georges_SimenonGeorges Simenon - Wikipedia

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   Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret.