lunedì 28 settembre 2020
SIMENON SIMENON VINTAGE. GEORGES SMENON IMITE LE COMMISSAIRE MAIGRET
domenica 27 settembre 2020
SIMENON SIMENON. LES MAXIMES DE MAIGRET
« J’ai toujours de l’espoir, jusqu’à la dernière minute, […] sinon je ne commencerais jamais une enquête. » (Maigret chez le ministre)
Ho sempre la speranza, fino all'ultimo minuto, [...] altrimenti non inizierei mai un'inchesta. (Maigret dal ministro)
“I always hope until the last minute, […] otherwise I would never begin an investigation.” (Maigret and the Minister)
sabato 26 settembre 2020
SIMENON SIMENON VINTAGE "REPORT" - 60 ANNI FA LA DOLCE VITA, FILM ICONA MADE IN ITALY
venerdì 25 settembre 2020
SIMENON SIMENON. MAIGRET É STANCO?
SIMENON SIMENON. MAIGRET EST-IL LASSÉ?
giovedì 24 settembre 2020
SIMENON SIMENON. YOU CAN'T GO WITHOUT MAIGRET…
Why Simenon continued to write novels with the Chief Inspector
SIMENON SIMENON. NON POTETE ANDARE SENZA DI MAIGRET…
Perché Simenon ha continuato a scrivere romanzi con il commissario
SIMENON SIMENON. ON NE PEUT PAS SE PASSER DE MAIGRET...
Simenon tried several times getting rid of Maigret, this character who had brought him glory and also, one must admit, the money that allowed him to live as he wanted to. No doubt the novelist found that his hero was somewhat cumbersome and even invasive, because it is true that for a long time people would only know Simenon as a detective novel writer…
Simenon had to wait long till he was recognized as a great novelist, and, according to the law of the pendulum swing back, literary critics attempted then to eclipse the Maigret novels… Fortunately, thanks to Maigret's evocative strength, nowadays almost everyone acknowledges that the Maigret novels and the “romans durs”, that is to say both sides in Simenon's works, are equally important, and that the Maigret novels are much more that just good for relaxation in the waiting room...
As for Simenon himself, he eventually realized that Maigret was necessary to his “writing balance”. He needed to alternate the “romans durs” and the Maigret novels, because writing an investigation lead by the Chief Inspector was a kind of little joy he offered himself between two hard writings, and also because he could try, in a Maigret novel, a theme he would afterwards develop in a “roman dur”; or, on the contrary, a Maigret novel would allow him to discuss topics he didn't succeed in dealing with in a “roman dur”. Over time Maigret would serve him as a kind of counterpoint, of counterpoise, putting some lightness in the heart of the works, but also becoming a character to which he could confide his own questionings about many subjects that haunted him.
And their relationship got closer and closer over time. Whereas Simenon had forgotten, once he ceased to be a novelist, most of the characters he had created, wasn't Maigret the only character that the novelist talked about in his autobiographical works, and even many times?...
by Simenon-Simenon
mercoledì 23 settembre 2020
SIMENON SIMENON. LES MAXIMES DE MAIGRET
"Mon rôle est de découvrir les coupables. Pour cela, je n’ai à m’inquiéter que de leur mentalité avant. Savoir si tel homme a été capable de commettre tel crime, quand et comment il l’a commis." (Cécile est morte)
"I mio compito è scoprire i colpevoli. Per questo non posso che occuparmi della loro mentalità preceddente. Sapere se un tale uomo è stato capace di commettere quel crimine, quando e come l'ha commesso" (Cecilia é morta)
“My role is to discover the culprits. For this I have only to care about their mentality before. To know whether this particular man was able to commit such a crime, when and how he committed it.” (Cécile is Dead)