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Oct 3, 2011 · The family is petit-bourgeois, but only barely. Against Désiré’s wishes, Élise takes lodgers into their small apartment. Soon, when Désiré comes home from work, someone is sitting in his ...
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Sep 12, 2022 · Simenon explained his fecundity as arising from ruthless minimalism, a stripping away of the effects of prose that left him with a supple and always applicable instrument.
Simenon's notable novels of the 1930s, written after the temporary retirement of Maigret, include Le testament Donadieu ( The Shadow Falls) (1937), L'homme qui regardait passer les trains ( The Man who Watched the Trains Go By) (1938) and Le bourgmestre de Furnes ( The Burgomaster of Furnes) (1939). [ 39]
Feb 16, 2016 · Simenon may have come from the small bourgeois world in which many of his stories begin; it was not one whose pretensions he accepted, however. For his protagonists, bourgeois life is a form of confinement from which they struggle to break free.
The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon is a biography about the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, written by the Englishman Patrick Marnham and published by Bloomsbury in 1992.
Sep 7, 1989 · Inspector and Madame Maigret were what many consider an ideal petit-bourgeois couple. He was absolutely respectful and faithful to his wife.
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Oct 23, 2019 · Born in the Belgian city of Liège in 1903, Simenon said he had a ‘middle-class soul’. Maigret is a bourgeois adrift in a murky underworld but, unlike his creator, he is dutifully uxorious. Madame Maigret pampers him like the needy man he is. (‘Men, they’re all the same!’)
