Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The Fayard Maigret novels: narratives, contexts, settings and themes, 1931 -- The Fayard Maigret novels: narratives, contexts, settings and themes, 1932 -- The Fayard Maigret novels: Simenon's perspective -- Short stories and journalism: Maigret, Simenon and the crises of the 1930s -- What Maigret did next -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"This book examines the importance of social class and social change in the Maigret stories, with a particular emphasis on the early formative novels, and the development of plot, characterization and settings. The work seeks to establish the extent to which Simenon's portrait of French society is historically accurate"-- Provided by publisher.
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