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- With the creation of Maigret, Simenon renewed the detective novel genre. The novels and stories have been translated into more than 50 languages. The Maigret stories have also received numerous film, television and radio adaptations.
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Nov 28, 2016 · What made Simenon stand out, however, was his ‘Maigret’ collection. The character of Inspector Jules Maigret, a French detective, appears in 75 full length novels and 28 short stories, and is one of Belgium’s most successful exports.
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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...
He was from the village of Saint-Fiacre in the Allier Department, where his father Evariste Maigret was the bailiff for the local landowner; see Simenon's novel Maigret's Failure (Un échec de Maigret), about a school bully and contemporary, "Fatty" Ferdinand Fumal from the same village.
TitleFrench-language Publication DatePenguin Uk Reissue DateReissue #Maigret et Monsieur CharlesFebruary 19729 Jan 202075Maigret et l'indicateurJune 19715 Dec 201974Maigret et l'homme tout seulFebruary 19717 Nov 201973May 19703 Oct 201972Jan 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.
To Simenon and Maigret, as to their contemporary readers, it is usually more important (as well as entertaining) to understand why a crime was committed than precisely how it...
Jan 10, 2020 · Here is defined the essence of Maigret in particular, and of the Maigret books in general. What drives the detective is his abiding curiosity about the workings of human affairs.
Sep 19, 2024 · Take La Tête d’un homme (A Man’s Head), among the earlier crop of Simenon’s Maigret novels. Joseph Huertin, a slow-witted delivery boy, faces the gallows for the twin murders of the wealthy American Mme. Henderson and her maid.
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