Prejudice and Psychology

Hardly any other writer of the 20th century has produced as much as he and hardly a writer of the 20th century was such inserted into the template as. Georges Simenon, who was born in Liege Belgian is almost exclusively taken up today by the general public in connection with his gambling in Paris detective novels of Maigret. He succeeded, and so he became famous in his own lifetime. Its history in the adopted home of France, however, is mixed. One into Antisemitic interpreted by the German occupiers publication was enough to attack him violently after the liberation. He chose exile after exile, first he went to the USA and finally he settled in Switzerland, where he died

However, In addition to the detective novels and actual light fiction he created novels to date are well worth reading because of their psychological depth Ganges and just discovered by new editions of a new public. The commitment, in the English (German: The engagement of Monsieur Hire) is one of these masterpieces. The novel was published in 1933 for the first time, playing in Paris and is an ingenious story about prejudice and mass psychology.

Without the act that creates skilfully by their emotionless as distanced portrayal large voltage is very simple from the basic pattern. It's about the murder of a prostitute and his supposed enlightenment. The bottom line, however, is the description of the protagonist who falls through the thought patterns of the surrounding outside world in general suspicion. Monsieur Hire, an obese, midget, doughy-looking man, of a movement pursues the same shops, from which no one is smart. What emerges as the obscure in the eyes of the surrounding neighborhood, the result of its discretion and the suspicion that looks like a prejudice, arises from its tendency to voyeurism as from a visit to a brothel.

The observations of the police lead to nothing. Shadowed and observed, Monsieur Hire holds a heart and visited the investigating commissioner at the police station, which surprised him with the fact that there is a file on him, not only his business involves the fringes of the law, but also his family circumstances. The son of a Jewish tailor originating from Eastern Europe, who still bore the name Hirowitz, is the blueprint for a criminal profile that does not exist so. Antisemitism these days is enough to rush him through the streets of Paris as an animal.

Simenon waived psychological analysis. The precise, cold description of routines defoliated at the audience a panorama of social relations and prejudices. The rather pathetic man who suffers his Attraktivitätslosigkeit and his lack of self-esteem, is the cause of suspicion par. Without evidence, without reliable witnesses and no confession, the rope pulls tighter and tighter to him. That which the police work, as long as it is unprejudiced mind, that research and analysis, suddenly no longer plays and it is a matter of time matter when this Monsieur Hire you go into the net. When it comes to the showdown, the police lost the director and together Come mob chases him in a fatal outcome. The audience is aware of the circumstances, they know who has actually committed the murder and that Monsieur Hire is the victim of deceit. But that does not matter. She is intrigued by the mechanisms of prejudice and mass psychology.