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- In 1934, he retired his famous detective (with a book simply titled Maigret) and started to produce “serious” novels at the same feverish pace he’d been producing potboilers. These books, which Simenon called his roman durs (or hard novels), would indeed bring the writer the critical respect he craved.
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Jan 10, 2020 · Though he also wrote more than 100 psychological novels he referred to as ‘ romans durs ’ (hard stories), Simenon is best known for his books featuring Detective Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, published between 1931 and 1973.
Jan 10, 2020 · His work, both the Maigret series and what he called his romans durs, or “hard novels”, displays a unique blend of stoic detachment and unfailing, all-embracing empathy. It is never...
Simenon suspended his writing of Maigret stories in 1933 in order to concentrate on the literary novels he called romans durs. In 1937 he stated that his aim was to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.
Jun 30, 2012 · Georges Simenon didn't count Inspector Maigret as his most significant creation. His romans durs, the Rolls Royces he assembled so carefully, were the standard by which he wished to be judged. Decades later, we are immeasurably lucky to have this spate of them in handsome, new editions.
- The Snow Was Dirty
- The Saint-Fiacre Affair
- The Man Who Watched Trains Go by
- The Mahé Circle
- The Strangers in The House
It’s a pity that most readers, hearing the name Simenon, immediately think: Oh yes, Maigret. But in fact Simenon, as he well knew, was at his best in what he called his romans durs,or ‘hard novels’. And this one is surely the hardest of them all. It’s set in Liège, Simenon’s hometown, during the war, among a cast of gangsters and low-lifes. An asto...
This is one of the very best of the Maigret series. The Paris police inspector travels to the village of his birth, to investigate a predicted murder, which duly takes place. The opening scene, in which Maigret rises early on a winter morning in a provincial hotel, is superb. The plot, as usual, is preposterous. But one doesn’t read a Maigret for a...
A deeply unsettling study of a psychotic — the wonderfully named Kees Popinga — recounted with the lightest of touches. Simenon knew a great deal about the darkness of the human psyche, and his great gift, one of his great gifts, is to observe, and report, with an utterly unsentimental eye, on the doings of his fellow humans.
An extraordinary study of a burgeoning and eventually fatal obsession. It is set on the holiday island of Porquerolles off the south coast of France, but is the story of a holiday in Hell, as the eponymous Mahé conducts his doomed pursuit of the girl in the red dress. Enigmatic, brooding, and wholly convincing.
The lawyer Hector Loursat has largely given up on life after his wife’s desertion. He spends each evening reading and drinking himself into oblivion. Then a murder is committed in his house and he determines to act as legal defence for the young accused. I can do no better than quote myself (from the LA Times, 2018): ‘the quintessentialroman dur:di...
Sep 19, 2024 · Such was the prolificacy of the man who wrote over 400 novels – some in his famed Inspector Maigret series, but many other standalones besides, which he often referred to as his romans durs or ‘hard novels’.
Jul 29, 2022 · Particularly noteworthy for readers whose familiarity of Simenon extends only as far as his Maigret novels are Forshaw’s descriptions of the author’s so-called romans durs.
