The Times Literary Supplement - 12/06/2020 - Jonathan Gibbs - The first time we meet Chief Inspector Maigret, in Pietr the Latvian (1930), he is reading a telegram in his office at the Quai des Orfèvres, but straight away he gets up to fiddle with his stove. He raised his eyes. It seemed to him that cast-iron stove in the middle of his office with its chimney tube rising to the ceiling wasn’t roaring properly. He pushed the telegram away, rose ponderously to his feet, adjusted the flue and thrust three shovels of coal into the firebox. Maigret might well be associated primarily with his pipe(s), no less than Sherlock Holmes, but his stove is an equally significant feature. It fixes him as a man with basic physical needs, as a man of the people, of the soil, even just as much as the animal metaphors that Georges Simenon applies to him, making his hero variously bovine, ursine, “like a big shaggy dog” and, in one memorably odd moment, like an elephant...>>>
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The Times Literary Supplement - 12/06/2020 - Jonathan Gibbs - The first time we meet Chief Inspector Maigret, in Pietr the Latvian (1930), he is reading a telegram in his office at the Quai des Orfèvres, but straight away he gets up to fiddle with his stove. He raised his eyes. It seemed to him that cast-iron stove in the middle of his office with its chimney tube rising to the ceiling wasn’t roaring properly. He pushed the telegram away, rose ponderously to his feet, adjusted the flue and thrust three shovels of coal into the firebox. Maigret might well be associated primarily with his pipe(s), no less than Sherlock Holmes, but his stove is an equally significant feature. It fixes him as a man with basic physical needs, as a man of the people, of the soil, even just as much as the animal metaphors that Georges Simenon applies to him, making his hero variously bovine, ursine, “like a big shaggy dog” and, in one memorably odd moment, like an elephant...>>>
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