C LIT228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jules Maigret, Georges Simenon
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C lit 228: september 19, 2016 death and the compass and death of a nobody. Escher: similar obsession with spacial paradoxes, and the creation of multiplicitious worlds, Interesting that the villa plays with tropes of multiplication, repetition, infinity. etc. This is an example of the visual arts that mimes the tropes that are later seen in science fiction. Clear relation here, with the layering of multiple planes of reference. Bo(cid:396)ges" (cid:449)o(cid:396)k has to do (cid:449)ith su(cid:271)(cid:448)e(cid:396)ti(cid:374)g the pla(cid:374)es of (cid:396)efe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g to do (cid:449)ith alte(cid:396)(cid:374)ate versions of history. Death of a nobody georges simenon (1903-1989, belgium, france, canada/us, switzerland) One of the most widely translated french language writers. Commissaire jules maigret, who works in the paris police system (the police judiciare) Maigret is the protagonist of 75 novels and some short prose. I(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374)"s (cid:449)(cid:396)iti(cid:374)g is characterized by an impressionistic/pointillist literary style.