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Summary: Simenon Meets Borges
Review: It was one of those non-descript days in the winter of 1927 or 1928, when Jules Maigret was called into Chief Inspector Xavier Guichard's office. The Chief wanted Inspector Maigret to show the young writer Georges Simenon around the Quai des Orfevres. The twenty four year old Simenon followed Maigret around the headquarters and asked him about his cases. A few months later, Maigret found on his desk a copy of the book, The Girl with the Pearl Necklace. To his great surprise, he learned that without his permission he had become a character in Simenon's new novel! As time went on, Maigret found himself and his cases in more of Georges Simenon's novels. Soon the real and fictional Jules Maigret's lives became intertwined. Maigret's Memoirs is Jules Maigret's attempt to tell his side of his strange relationship with Georges Simenon and the Inspector Maigret he created. This book will be of interest to all Inspector Maigret fans. We learn of his childhood and his early years on the police force. Through his memoirs, Jules Maigret is able to fill out the real Maigret that Simenon has drawn upon as inspiration for his novels.
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Summary: Simenon Meets Borges
Review: It was one of those non-descript days in the winter of 1927 or 1928, when Jules Maigret was called into Chief Inspector Xavier Guichard's office. The Chief wanted Inspector Maigret to show the young writer Georges Simenon around the Quai des Orfevres. The twenty four year old Simenon followed Maigret around the headquarters and asked him about his cases. A few months later, Maigret found on his desk a copy of the book, The Girl with the Pearl Necklace. To his great surprise, he learned that without his permission he had become a character in Simenon's new novel! As time went on, Maigret found himself and his cases in more of Georges Simenon's novels. Soon the real and fictional Jules Maigret's lives became intertwined. Maigret's Memoirs is Jules Maigret's attempt to tell his side of his strange relationship with Georges Simenon and the Inspector Maigret he created. This book will be of interest to all Inspector Maigret fans. We learn of his childhood and his early years on the police force. Through his memoirs, Jules Maigret is able to fill out the real Maigret that Simenon has drawn upon as inspiration for his novels.
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