The Late Monsieur Gallet (Inspector Maigret Book 3)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00DMCPHXS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 110 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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He makes me think of Chekhov.' — William Faulkner. 'I love reading Simenon
I enjoy piecing together the backgrounds and settings from the descriptions thymeout 65 Simenon is sometimes challenging to follow - I assume that's because the books are translated. I enjoy piecing together the backgrounds and settings from the descriptions. The conclusion in this book, as in many of his others, was unpredictable and deep.. Not my favorite Simenon Not my favorite Simenon. Too circumstantial about who done it and how. Not the wonderful character studies I'm used to with his work. Got bored with it.. All the charm of Simenon's style is here Patto There are amazing twists to this murder mystery, considering that it's a case "with nothing of interest about it." The victim is utter nondescript - a traveling salesman selling "fake silverware, fake luxury, fake style!" His wife and her pretentious family are quite ashamed of Monsieur Gallet.But Inspector Maigret never takes things at face value. Maigret is in search of the true man behind appearances.This b
. G. Sebald’s literary masterpiece Austerlitz. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland.Anthea Bell is the award-winning translator of numerous French and German works: from the Asterix comics to W. His prolific output of more than four hundred novels and the gripping, dark realism of his prose has cemented him as
Their haughtiness seems to hide ambiguous feelings about the hapless man. In theory this mental portrait was good enough, but now it was replaced by fleeting images which should have added up to one and the same man but which refused to get themselves into focus. In this haunting story, Maigret discovers the appalling truth and the real crime hidden behind the surface of lies. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. The circumstances of Monsieur Gallet's death all seem fake: the name the deceased was travelling under and his presumed profession, and more worryingly, his family's grief. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret Stonewalled and The Death of Monsieur Gallet.'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant.' - John Gray'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.' - The Guardian'A supreme writer unforgettable vividness.' - The IndependentFrom the Trade Paperback edition.. The face of the man in the ill-fitting coat just misted up so that it hardly looked human. The second book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of family ties, in a new translation by Anthea Bell.Instead of the detail filling itself in and becom