In contrast to the traditional detective novel and an enigma explains his decision, the judicial environment novel he wrote Georges Simenon in his Inspector Maigret series, is proposed instead the creation of an atmosphere, a context which will discard the elucidation of the crime.
"There should be no deductions or stroke of theater: its method is to slowly raise turbidity saturated atmospheres of mixed feelings, until, born of the physical communion intuition reveals the truth," says René Lalou.
intellectual pleasure that involves solving the riddle of the intrigues, murder, theft, missing person, is discernible in English tradition of the mystery novel, but everyone knows that the detective genre had its invention on a story by Edgar Allan Poe around 1841, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", of which the author is an orangutan final and appearing for the first time in literature the detective, the Chevalier Auguste Dupin.
Simenon's case, like the black American novel, is different.
A hundred years after his birth (born in Liege, Belgium, February 13, 1903), Georges Simenon wrote over two hundred novels published under his own name and have spent several tributes, as you just did Magazine littéraire magazine and that took place here in the Palace of Fine Arts, on Wednesday 17 September with the participation of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Caesar Guemes. Before the summer
Gallimard, in its prestigious Library of La Pléiade, in bookstores put two thick volumes of his novels and also dedicated the memorial Simenon Album of 2003. In a collection that contains the complete works of the classics, Marcel Proust and Jean-Paul Sartre, in a few months Simenon's works have established themselves as market leaders.
The English critic Rafael Conte refers to what was amazingly prolific inventor of Maigret. He says he was a novelist sometimes correct pretty clever, but he was never a great writer. Simenon wrote often for food needs, but also, keeping the hook of the detective novel, which does not allow the dropping of the reader took pains to write a hundred novels "serious."
was natural, moreover, that among so many novels-sometimes writing a senton, hours or days, locked-rounded than a few that are already going down in history as The Blue Room, The man who watched them pass trains, neighbors across the street, and those not strictly police. But perhaps one of the most notable is Maigret's memoirs, in which there is a meeting Pirandellian between the character and his creator Simenon Maigret.
already know that Maigret is not a private detective, and usually are the protagonists of the novel. It is a state representative, a prominent member of the police and judicial brilliant Paris, and the credibility of his character unthinkable in Mexico, may have worked well in France for the kind of relationship with readers, citizens, with institutions to seek and administer justice.
Maigret, on the other hand, is a character, not a type, more real, more human, more alive, since he first appeared in 1930, Peter the Latvian. Is a being of flesh and blood, lives with his wife near the Place des Vosges, sometimes regrets not having children, is making a career as a worker in the service of the state is about to retire, like the black snuff and light beer, I am pleased the Life appetite midday and delayed passage of the restaurants. Has his doubts. No clear nor as technical as researchers Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie. Works rather withdrawn and his alter ego, the writer Simenon, leads him to be creating an environment.
There comes a time in Maigret's memoirs coming to unfold, "take a double life: real character, the author argues with great character, asserting his own reality and their own rights as real character, "says Leonardo Sciascia in" A Brief History of the detective novel, "essay in Crossword, published by the Fondo de Cultura Economica in Mexico in 1990.
When Maigret, the character, he appears to Simenon, the writer, says that with the help of newspaper clippings would like to establish a timeline "of the major cases that have held me."
A Simenon does not seem a bad idea, but Maigret overtakes him that his books could be corrected.
"Only, my dear Maigret, who will have to be you who makes it work because I've never had the courage to reread."
dialogue between author and character, rather than Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello, already in 1615, in the second part of Don Quixote. Sancho and Don Quixote, Cervantes talk and comment, not without irony how their adventures were collected in the first volume.
The inspector Maigret Simenon's novels seem "inaccurate." Simenon REVIRA him: "I've turned you into someone more real than yourself." And he released the paradox that truths are made more real than the naked truth:
"The truth never seems real. I do not mean just painting or literature. Tell someone you anything. If not fix them always look amazing and all artificial. You fix it and look more authentic than the truth itself. "
Of these subtleties was also able novelist Georges Simenon.
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