Similar thoughts on the best story about Maigret and the big novel by Simenon.
SIMENON SIMENON. LA CREME DE LA CREME
Des réflexions similaires sur la meilleure histoire de Maigret et le grand roman de Simenon.
SIMENON SIMENON. IL MEGLIO DEL MEGLIO
Riflessioni sulle analogie tra le migliore storie di Maigret e i romans durs di Simenon
As
I worked my way through the full series of Maigret works, friends and
acquaintances would often ask me to suggest the best story to read as an
introduction to the man and his methods. I couldn’t come up with a good
answer and still don’t have one. I eventually concluded my problem
stemmed from the fact that I don’t think any one individual work is
outstanding. Rather, the series is outstanding. It’s impressive the way
Simenon maintains consistency throughout, especially since he has to
keep a lot of balls up in the air for a long, long time. Of course,
there are inaccuracies. The confusion about the Maigret apartments in
Paris (Boulevard Richard-Lenoir and Place des Vosges) and the switching
of brandies (plum and raspberry) are two examples. Whether deliberate or
unconscious, these twists add to the fun of reading the stories, for
one can play detective, too.
Curiously, my recent
concept parallels Simenon’s earlier vision of his “big” novel. When
introducing an ongoing series of 100 print interviews, Eric Maisel, PhD,
paraphrases Simenon as follows:
‘Georges Simenon, the
Belgian novelist who wrote the Inspector Maigret mystery series and five
hundred novels altogether, penned very short novels. When asked when he
would finally write his “big” novel, Simenon explained that his “big”
novel was the mosaic of his small novels. His “big” novel already
existed: you just had to accept its form.’
This citation
appears on his blog site, Mad in America, in a 25.01.2016 article The
Future of Mental Health Interview Series (L'Avenir de santé mentale, une
série d'interviews) with the following link:
http://www.madinamerica.com/2016/01/the-future-of-mental-health-interview-series/
David P Simmons
C'est dans un interview accordé à Carvel Collins pour une série d'entretiens intitulée The Art of Fiction qu'apparaît la formulation de Simenon: "Je n'écrirai jamais un grand roman. Mon grand roman est la mosaïque de tous mes petits romans." On peut trouver le texte de cet interview ici: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5020/the-art-of-fiction-no-9-georges-simenon.
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