METAFIZICA BLÂNDULUI DETECTIV JULES MAIGRET, EROUL ROMANELOR LUI GEORGES SIMENON
THE METAPHYSICS OF THE GENTLE DETECTIVE JULES MAIGRET, THE HERO OF THE NOVELS OF GEORGES SIMENON

Summary/Abstract: In this essay we propose to analyze the novel The Memoirs of Maigret, by Georges Simenon, as it represents the passing of the detective from a simple actor of the narrative plan, through his animation by the narrator, to the character that transmits the estimation of the writer to the grid through which the reader must receive his work. Our intention is to show that this novel was written in 1950 and appeared in 1951, proposes to the reader an introduction to the commissioner's work environment, a survey of colleagues, and how the outside weather gives a personal touch to each survey. We have a case, if not singular in the literature, at least original, confrontation with the self, attempt to rehabilitate by pencil what critic commented, man-creator manipulation, through attempts of mutual discourse. Maigret's memoirs appear at the "middle" of this character's life, and Georges Simenon presents to the audience a story as realistic as surprising as his character, commissioner Jules Maigret, is not confused with his creator but comes to He draws his attention to some untruths he said about him in the first writings. The ineffable of this novel stems from the way in which the fiction-reality alternation intertwines in the narrative flow. The declared intention of the author, in fact the voice of the character, is to explain his own appearance in the literature. Moreover, he considers himself wronged because he is not sketched as he really is, and he allows him to make suggestions to his creator. The real-imaginary balance is not relieved even by the intimate aspects of Georges Simenon's life, an aspect identified by trying to discern against the possible inadvertencies of previous writings about Maigret.

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