A POINT OF FORCED PASSAGE FOR "MAIGRETIEN"

A big tip of the hat to Omnibus which publishes this integral Maigret. No one more than Simenon has succeeded in so few words, establish a climate both physically (one literally feels cold drizzle, the scorching sun, the mists of the river, fragrant puffs of spring, the taste of dry white, grog, mulled wine, the apple of Alsace-each survey has its alcoholic smell) and psychological (Maigret, this exceptional "psychic" who feels the climate investigated as truffle hunting dog smells the trace game), tie a romantic plot of murder thoroughly and give such density to the most passionate human feelings (mad love, hate, social ambition ..) cooked and annealing all in the membership stiffening social (his description of social circles, petty-bourgeois, peasants and sailors is extraordinary hardness, precision and drought).
Given these often poor beings, inspiring little compassion, there is the great Maigret, sort of "sifter of souls" whose strength lies in understanding the internal springs that mobilize these sad actors on the scene of the crime . Maigret, the only one capable of understanding, compassion, attention to what life in this its most miserable victims reserve designated in advance, the only one able to grasp what the desires, jealousies and heartburn inspired meanness, machinations and dirty tricks to individuals lackluster, the only one able to break the incomprehensible, Maigret or Fate personified.
This first volume contains four very large Maigret Wagoner of Providence, Mr. Gallet died (the naturalist power to hoist the level of certain texts of Maupassant), the hanging of St. Phollien the night of Carrefour.
Welcome to a unique fictional universe.