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- Engels
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- 9780141978475
- 06 november 2014
- 160 pagina's
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Georges Simenon
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'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his movements were hard to make out. Very red lips stood out from his orb-like face, as did the thin moustache that he curled with an iron and looked as if it had been drawn on with India ink; on his cheekbones were the symmetrical pink dots of a doll's cheeks.'
People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Yet Mr Hire's innocence will not stand in the way of those looking for a scapegoat as tragedy unfolds in this quietly devastating and deeply unnerving novel.
'The romans durs are extraordinary: tough, bleak, offhandedly violent, suffused with guilt and bitterness, redolent of place . . . utterly unsentimental, frightening in the pitilessness of their gaze, yet wonderfully entertaining' John Banville
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
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Early on in this somewhat disappointing 1933 ‘roman dur’ there is talk of a murdered and robbed prostitute in a Paris suburb. It becomes slowly clear that Mr. Hire, who is the focus of the book, is the prime subject. Does he know? He is a lonely man whose daily routines rarely change. He runs a mild form of postal fraud and entertains passive, rather infantile dreams about love. He lives in a single room apartment in a poorly-constructed tenement managed by a female concierge. His window faces the bedroom of luscious Alice who undresses with the lights on. Whilst the first 5 chapters concentrate on his inability to communicate with The Others, the next chapters give Mr. Hire more background, depth perhaps. It transpires during a rare face to face with Alice that he knows who killed the prostitute and where the evidence is hidden…
Throughout the novel he is under surveillance, which he shakes off more than once. This is classic Simenon behavior: where you and I would wait out the storm or inform the police, not Mr. Hire. He panics and gradually inflicts tragedy on himself. But questions remain: why should a quaint appearance or background (he is short and fattish, half Jewish /half Armenian) inspire instant hostility in strangers or deep suspicion, hatred and worse from neighbors? Lots of symbolism re weather and colors (grey squares vs. pink and red) and with plenty of clues and red herrings. Strong on expressing loneliness via the sounds in the building.
Written in fifth gear in 15 days max., perhaps this one in five, because GS could produce 60-70 pp. per day at the time, this reader cannot fathom what he had in mind with this weird tale, what his message could possibly be. Unless the novel’s moral is never to trust a milkmaid or girls named Alice.Vond je dit een nuttige review?00
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