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| Author | : Russell Campbell |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2022-09-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476648271 |
For nearly a century, the work of Belgian crime writer and psychological novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Chief Inspector Maigret, has captivated readers worldwide. This investigation situates Simenon's work in its historical context and interprets it as a reaction to shifting gender relations in Western society. Simenon's compelling narratives capture the anxieties of men whose patriarchal position was under threat in an era of insurgent feminist movements. These concerns are also evident in Simenon's pervasive preoccupation with sexuality, as well as his political stance that stems from his petit-bourgeois upbringing. This groundbreaking study includes interwoven commentary on all 191 novels Simenon published under his own name, including several that have never been translated into English, as well as a number of short stories and several pseudonymous works.
| Author | : Georges Simenon |
| Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2022-03-03 |
| Genre | : Soviet Union |
| ISBN | : 9780241534724 |
On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city has a new Turkish consul. Adil Bey - alone in an alien land - has taken the job after the mysterious death of his predecessor. Receiving only suspicion and hostility, he soon becomes reliant on his secretary, Sonia, for any taste of intimacy. They begin a quiet love affair, and from his window at the consulate, he watches her and her family go about their lives in the room across the way. But this is Stalin's world before the war, and nothing is as it seems. . . Georges Simenon's most starkly political work, The People Opposite is a tour de force of slow-burn tension and existentialist meditation.
| Author | : Georges Simenon |
| Publisher | : Harvest Books |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character) |
| ISBN | : 9780156551229 |
Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.
| Author | : Bill Alder |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2012-12-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476601062 |
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a phenomenally successful author of crime fiction. His 75 Maigret novels and 28 Maigret short stories were published between 1931 and 1972 to great international acclaim (he is the only non-anglophone crime writer to have achieved such renown). His Maigret stories are regarded by many as having established a new direction in crime fiction, emphasizing social and psychological portraiture rather than focussing on a puzzle to be solved or on "action." This book examines the importance of social class and social change in the Maigret stories, giving a particular emphasis to the early formative novels and the development of plot, characterization and setting. The author seeks to establish the extent to which Simenon's portrait of French society is historically accurate and the nature of the influence of the author's own class position and ideology on his fiction.
| Author | : Georges Simenon |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2018-12-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0241304040 |
During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the darker side of the art world. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Apparition. 'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian
| Author | : Georges Simenon |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2019-02-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0241304148 |
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of a criminal Maigret has known for over twenty years and one he always suspected was behind a string of jewellery robberies in the city. Maigret's patience is tested as he eliminates neighbour by neighbour in his hunt for the murderer. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret Bides His Time. 'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian
| Author | : Georges Simenon |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
| ISBN | : 9780156028530 |
Nine short stories make up this delightful holiday-themed collection, each featuring Georges Simenon's famous detective, Jules Maigret. Christmas mysteries abound: an otherwise sensible little girl insists that she has seen Father Christmas, a statement alarming to her neighbors, Monsieur and Madame Maigret. Then, a choirboy helps the inspector solve a crime while he lies in bed with a cold; another boy, pursued by a criminal, ingeniously leaves a trail to help Maigret track him. Many of these stories feature observant and resourceful children, frightened yet resolute, who bring out a paternal streak in the childless Maigret. The rapport between the inspector and these youthful heroes imparts a delightful freshness to this holiday collection- a cornucopia for fans of Maigret and mysteries.
| Author | : Georges Simenon |
| Publisher | : Signet Book |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Paralyzed and unable to speak, a newspaper publisher reviews his life from a hospital bed and is able to find a new understanding.
| Author | : NA NA |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 1585 |
| Release | : 2015-12-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1349813664 |
| Author | : Georges Simenon |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Mondays are nobody's favorite day, but when Maigret's week begins with a corpse found stabbed to death in a Parisian alley, the Inspector immediately sees a flaw. Murders are rarely committed on Mondays. That clue, along with the victim's strange recent behavior, leads Maigret to the cause of this nasty crime-and reveals the tale of a deadly marriage.
