1st Edition

Exploring Crime Fiction Georges Simenon’s Normandy Coast Mysteries

192 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

Georges Simenon’s commissaire Maigret is often associated with Paris, yet nearly one-third of the 103 Maigret novels and short stories take place outside the capital. Among these, the Normandy coast emerges as a recurring setting, featured not only in several Maigret narratives but also in Simenon’s early pulp fiction and later non-Maigret novels. In this book, Bill Alder explores Simenon’s... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 Bénouville and Etretat: From pulp fiction to crime fiction

Chapter 2 Fécamp: Two faces of the Normandy Coast

Chapter 3 Deauville : Escapist novels and the creation of Maigret

Chapter 4 Ouistreham: The little world of the misty harbour

Chapter 5 Dieppe: The town with four ports

Chapter 6 Port-en-Bessin: Character, action and narration in Simenon’s romans durs

Chapter 7 Simenon, Maigret and Normandy: perspectives and themes

Chapter 8 The Writer at Work

Chapter 9 From the page to other media: adapting Simenon’s Normandy coast stories

Chapter 10 Translating Simenon’s Normandy stories

Conclusions