Georges Simenon

Maigret's Memoirs (Inspector Maigret)

Übersetzer: Curtis, Howard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In his own words, Maigret reflects on his legacy-and storytelling itself-in this metatextual meditation on narrative, policing, and truth. Is the real Inspector Maigret the mentally agile, physically ponderous detective of Georges Simenon's famous novels? Or is this character a distorted facsimile of an actual person? In a startling turn of events, the original Jules Maigret of the Paris Police Judiciaire now takes the reins from Simenon and reveals, with self-effacing candor and some trepidation, where reality ends and skillful storytelling begins. As he well knows, his identity cannot be disentangled from his fictional alter ego's. Indeed, over the decades, the gap between "Maigret" and Maigret has only narrowed. Yet his urge to assert his individuality is, he hopes, understandable-because aren't we all discomfited when shown an image of ourselves that is almost, but not quite, true to life?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador USA
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781250425850
• ISBN-10: 1250425859
• Artikelnr.: 75287804

Autorenporträt

Georges Simenon; Translated from the French by Howard Curtis

Rezensionen

One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere John Banville Financial Times