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Maigret and the Gangsters by Georges Simenon (1986, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarcourt Trade Publishers
ISBN-100151555656
ISBN-139780151555659
eBay Product ID (ePID)134881
Product Key Features
Original LanguageFrench
Edition4
Book TitleMaigret and the Gangsters
Number of Pages162 Pages
LanguageFre,Eng
Publication Year1986
TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorGeorges Simenon
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN86-000294
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal843/.912
LC Classification NumberPQ2637.I53M26713
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- Jan 04, 2017
He always leaves me wanting more.
I have read a couple of dozen Maigret mysteries (all in English, I have not studied French), and when I finish one I always want to read another one, although I'm not sure why. Maigret mysteries are mostly not about finding the clues scattered throughout the text and trying to get to the solution one step ahead of the detective (although I have read a few Maigrets like that). Most of the blurbs say that Simenon is the master of the psychological solution: The reader is supposed to read the characters of the characters and realize which of them is capable of committing the crime. That may be. I confess that I have not yet been able to do that. Some blurbs say that the Maigret mysteries are essentially existential, and that Simenon expresses the philosophies of Sartre and Camus. I confess I don't have enough philosophy credits on my transcript to say whether that is true. I think that the writing is to some extent "hard boiled", in that it is clean, not because it is tough. Simenon does not waste words: He sketches, he doesn't paint. But the stories draw me in and pull me along. I have sometimes "put one down", but not willingly. Usually when I begin a Maigret mystery, I find myself trying to find any way I can to finish it in one sitting. One last comment: In my opinion, the English in the translations published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich is much more readable than the current paperback series published by a group named for an Antarctic bird.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
