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#Maigret

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Literatopia

Gastrezi zu #Maigret im Haus des Richters:

"Die einzelnen Maigret`schen Kriminalromane mögen sich ähneln; konzentriert man sich als Leser, um nicht hinsichtlich der Namen durcheinanderzukommen, hält man hiermit durchaus gut lesbare Lektüre in den Händen."

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www.literatopia.deMaigret im Haus des Richters (Georges Simenon)Auch wenn Maigret Kollegen hat, die ihn bei der täglichen  Arbeiter unterstützen, ist er doch der einsame Wolf, der seine Arbeit alleine macht. Er ist so ganz anders als die modernen Ermittler, keine gescheiterte Existenz, die sich ihre sprichwörtlichen Brötchen hart und brutal verdienen muss, sondern eher gutbürgerlich, bieder und erfolgreich.
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kaggsy59

Kicking off the #1970Club with some classic French crime! #maigret #1970club

If it's Monday, it must be launch day for the #1970Club! I do hope as many of you that can will join in, our reading clubs are always such fun! For my first book of the week I have switched from my original plan; I have tended to start the club off with a GA crime book from the inimitable Agatha Christie.

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings · Kicking off the #1970Club with some classic French crime! #maigret #1970clubIf it’s Monday, it must be launch day for the #1970Club! I do hope as many of you that can will join in, our reading clubs are always such fun! For my first book of the week I have switched f…
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Literatopia

"Philippe Lauer ist ein junger Polizeiinspektor. Er erlebt eines Nachts, mitten im Dient, einen Alptraum. Es wird nicht nur der Mann, den er beschatten soll, vor seinen Augen umgebracht, erschossen, um genau zu sein. Philippe verliert auch noch die Nerven – er hinterlässt am Tatort Spuren, die ihn zum Hauptverdächtigen machen. In dieser Notsituation kann nur noch Jules #Maigret helfen. ..."

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www.literatopia.deMaigret und sein Neffe (Georges Simenon)Das Buch gefällt. Es bietet einen gut lesbaren Blick in die Kriminalliteraturgeschichte.
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Nick

Very sad to hear that the great Irish actor #MichaelGambon has died at the age of 82.

An extremely charismatic, likeable and effortless actor, for a lot of people he will be remembered as Albus Dumbledore or for his work with Dennis Potter or Peter Greenaway, or onstage in Beckett and Pinter plays.

But for me, he’s always #Maigret, and when I read a Maigret novel, he’s the protagonist in my head.

Drawing of Gambon as Maigret, with pipe, hat and coat.
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Also, avoiding spoilers, the ending shows that #Maigret books are not Christie-type cosy crime puzzlers, where we meet several suspects and get to know them in detail to choose the killer

#Simenon instead uses the police procedural to explore the (often poignant) world of the victim or those close to them, with little interest in the actual murderer.

I feel like #SjöwallandWahlöö did this with #MartinBeck, but to a clearer political purpose. Simenon was a great writer but with less noble aims.

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Nick

Just finished #Maigret And The Man On The Bench, not with this cover sadly.

Really affecting story about a fundamentally good man who tries to carve out his own little secret life during the day, but the greed and pride of those around him end it.

The lovely detail is “goose poo shoes”. Yellowish shoes that were trendy in his youth but he was never allowed. When he’s away from his awful wife he changes into these shoes, symbolising his liberation. He then changes them back every evening.

Cover of the Nobel, a pipe smoking man on and also in a bench in an impossible way, with a black set of shoes beside his feet.
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Victor Gijsbers

I've read the 1941 book Cours d'Assises by George #Simenon (translated in Dutch as De zaak Louis Bert). Simenon is famous for his detective novels starring inspector #Maigret, so it was very interesting to me that this psychological novel was a sort of anti-detective, anti-policier. The protagonist is a small-time crook who ends up in a monstrous judicial machinery that cares only about itself, its process, its judgements, and not at all about the people it judges.

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