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Bezig met laden... Maigret wordt kwaad (1947)door Georges Simenon
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. As usual, there are things at the end that you weren't privy to so you might have suspected who the culprit was, but you couldn't have solved the entire mystery yourself, but then, what the heck. You've just spent a few hours with Inspector Maigret -- drinking brandy and refreshing white wine, eating, walking on the towpath along the Seine, and it was good fun. ( ) A la retraite depuis deux ans, en train de se battre contre des doryphores sur ses aubergines… Maigret se voit sollicité par une petite vieille au caractère bien trempé au sujet de la mort suspecte de sa petite fille, noyée. Ni une, ni deux, Maigret fait sa valise et laisse sa femme et les aubergines ravagées. L’occasion de revoir un camarade de classe qui ne lui avait pas laissé forcément un bon souvenir. Les choses ne s’amélioreront pas. Un très bon polar bien glauque au milieu du fric et au bord de la Seine et des canaux à quelques kilomètres de Paris This novella was originally published together with La pipe de Maigret in 1947, as the first in the series to be issued by Simenon's new publisher, Presses de la Cité. It was also the last Maigret story before Simenon moved to the US. As in some of the 1939 short stories, this is set a couple of years after Maigret's long-postponed retirement to his country cottage in Meung-sur-Loire. He's starting to get a little bored with angling and gardening, and it doesn't take him long to agree when a distinguished elderly lady turns up on his doorstep to ask for help in clearing up the mystery of her granddaughter's death. He soon finds himself in a classic Maigret setting — a decayed fishermen's inn on the upper Seine — extracting information about the dark secrets of the upper bourgeoisie from servants, lock-keepers and poachers, and is surprised to be identified as a high-school classmate by the old lady's son-in-law, now a business tycoon. It's a classic Maigret investigation, where he doesn't so much "solve" the mystery as rattle the cupboards until a skeleton falls out. Nothing very sophisticated, but some interesting twists due to Maigret's nebulous not-quite-official status. Maigret gets angry translated from Maigret se fache by Ros Schwartz is the book I am reading on this morning's 0630. During my train journey Maigret is on one too: 'The train. He was hot. He sat in his corner puffing on his pipe. The grass on the embankments was yellow, the little stations with their tubs of flowers flashed past' (Penguin, 2015, page 12). Simenon writes so effortlessly and clearly, setting scenes in few words. There is some Camus about him. He comes out of retirement 'Perhaps because of the Colorado beetles' (page 13) while Camus killed the Arab perhaps because if the heat. I remember posters on doctor's surgeries warning people about Colorado beetles, little stripey things imported from foreign parts. That was in the 1950s. Maigret se fache was first published in 1947. Maigret solves the case and enjoys coming out of retirement. A two-hour rail journey and the job is done and the book is read. It took a careful read at the end to work out some of the relationships. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Maigret (26)
Maigret is cajoled out of retirement by a case involving an old classmate in book twenty-six of the new Penguin Maigret series. All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm and contempt. This wasn't a case for him. He was out of his depth. This world was unfamiliar to him, and he had difficulty piecing it all together. Peacefully tending his garden in the countryside, Maigret is called upon to investigate a rich family with skeletons in their cupboard - and finds himself confronted by lies, snobbery and malice. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret in Retirement. '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 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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