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- Writer and critic Ian Thomson positions him as the “archetypal fictional detective of the 20th century and a template for Inspector Morse, Kurt Wallander and any pensive sloggers on the beat”.
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Jules Maigret (French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon.
The great detective cherishes his private life with Madame Maigret. Although the couple’s relationship is undemonstrative, they are extremely close. Indeed, at times they seem almost to function as one in their complete understanding of each other and their separate needs.
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A prolific writer, Simenon published on average six novels per year. He could write a book in 11 days: eight days for the composition and three for the correction. (Simenon, prolific in more ways than one, claimed to have slept with more than 10,000 women.) Simenon wrote accessible texts, with short sentences and simple vocabulary. He explained in ...
“Comprendre et ne pas juger” (understand and judge not), was said to be Simenon’s motto. Accordingly, he built his oeuvre around psychological investigations. The motto can be applied as well to his detective hero. Biographer Lucille Beckernotes Simenon writes “impressionistic notations of subtle psychological states, sensory impressions, and minut...
Screen adaptations rarely modernise the setting. Apart from the French director Claude Barmawho translated Maigret in the contemporary 1970s, they offer period pieces of picturesque nostalgia set in the 1950s. Simenon’s world“of second-class hotels and third-class railway carriages, of drifters, bargemen, tarts and luckless creditors” is rendered i...
Nov 28, 2016 · Simenon was a genius in creating a multi-faceted man to be discovered with each new book of the collection. Within the novel, Maigret evolves as a real person would and not as a funny caricature like it is more commonly the case with other detectives in extensive collections.
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Sep 12, 2022 · The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret. 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...
Mar 16, 2016 · Maigret’s persona, on the other hand, is largely inspired by real-life Commissaire Guillaume, le grand patron of the Police Judiciaire (PJ, pronounced pé’ji), who was in charge of the most famous criminal investigations of the time. A smoker of cigarettes rather than pipes, he was also significantly slimmer.
Sep 13, 2024 · Jules Maigret, fictional character, an unassuming, compassionate, and streetwise Parisian police commissioner who is the protagonist of more than 80 novels by Georges Simenon. Simenon’s books featuring Inspector Maigret include Pietr-le-Letton (1931; The Case of Peter the Lett), Le Chien jaune.
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