Watching Mindhunter a few days ago, the play said that behind every serial killer there is an incompetent mother and an absent father.
This case is no exception. The ruthless father who was a butcher when he was a child, and a strong mother, finally got married. He didn't expect his wife to be another mother.
despair. The creator of Maigret, George Simenon, has also complained about his mother all his life.
The sheriff's performance is remarkable, and it is indeed rare to not see the shadow of Doudou. The whole process of solving the case relies on psychological warfare.
First, set up a bureau to make the outside world mistakenly believe that the murderer has been brought to justice and anger the real murderer.
The female police officer was used as a bait to lure the murderer into another shot. Have a basic understanding of the murderer's body shape and get pieces of clothes.
After the suspect was locked, it was a long interrogation and confrontation, and finally the wife and mother appeared in front of the murderer at the same time. The murderer collapsed.
No visits to relatives, friends, and colleagues, no traces of crime scene investigations, only psychological analysis and observation of words to solve the case, it seems simple today.
However, consider that the original George Simenon was born in the last century in 1903, and most of Maigret's novels were written around 1930. At that time, this kind of psychological background analysis was already very advanced.
Mr. Haruki Murakami mentioned George Simmel in his collection of short stories "The Big Carrot and the Difficult Avocado". The title of that short story is "Communication Is Necessary", which is humorous. After reading, I sighed about George Simmel's temperament experience.
Appendix 1 The Biography of George Simnon
The famous work "The Yellow Dog" by Belgian writer George Simenon was published as the title of the second episode of "Selected Foreign Thrill Stories" by China Youth Publishing House in 1981, which enabled Simenon's name to spread in China. Jin Zhiping wrote an interesting biography about his works in the "A Dictionary of Famous Foreign Writers", which has been popular today. In 1993, the United States published Patrick Maham's "This Man Not Maigret" is the best-written biography of Simenon.
Simenon is a prolific writer. In his lifetime, he wrote 76 Inspector Maigret stories (by Jin Zhiping said 82), 170 other "serious" novels, and 200 other works written under 18 pen names ( Wikipedia says the total number exceeds 450).
Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium in 1903. His family was relatively poor. When his father was 15 years old, he was seriously ill and he had to drop out of school. He worked as a clerk in a bookstore that year. This was his first career. In the following year, he joined the "Liège Daily" as a clerk. From a criminal reporter to a column novel writer, he published his first popular novel "On the Ash Bridge" in 1921. The following year, he lived in Paris, France. Once in Paris, this ambitious outsider met the French writer André Gide while working as a reporter. André urged him to reduce the rhetoric in his works; after following this advice, he used George Sim He published works under the pen name and became a popular novelist, and his fame rose to fame. Together with his diligence, he wrote 44 novels in one year. In 1928, he left Paris and roamed the French provinces and northern European water villages along the canals; during the journey, he created the character Jules Maigret, and after returning to Paris he gave up the pseudonym George Sim and popular novels She published Maigret’s series of novels, 11 of which were published in 1931 alone.
During the Second World War, Nazi Germany occupied Paris, but because of his reputation, he continued to write, and he often appeared in the streets with actress Arretti and director De Koa. They were notorious for dealing with collaborators during the war. After the liberation of Paris, Simeon had to go to the United States to live in the United States for ten years. He returned to Paris in 1955 and soon settled in Switzerland. For a while, he lived near the home of the English-Chinese writer Han Suyin in Lausanne. He lives there deep and simple, and the evening scene is bleak. He died at the age of 86 in 1989.
According to the biographer's observation, Simenon was never a jovial person, although he was keen on women with wine. He once boasted about going to Haikou, saying that there were at least 10,000 women who slept with him. His unhappiness is caused by women, at least because of one woman, that is his mother. Simeon has been complaining about his mother, Enriette Simenon, who didn't like him when he was a child and never expressed her love for him. In his autobiographical novels and memoirs, he attacked his mother a lot. He resented his mother all his life. One year after her death (1970), he suddenly stopped writing and stopped publishing new works.
The association with other women was also unsuccessful. He married twice, but both marriages did not meet his needs.
But his artistic life is meticulous. In his works, he constantly circled his poor youth, such as hating his mother and slandering his father. All this may be the motivation for Simenon's writing, but it is also the source of his frustration. As a Belgian, it is not easy to write France with such charm and precision. What's more, he writes about France that the public pays attention to: hotels, railway stations, rural towns, morgues, waterways, bars, police stations, etc. The only interior descriptions are in Maigret's novels. Unlike Simenon, Maigret has an ideal family and a perfect hostess. This kind of peaceful family life is what Simenon wants to pursue.
Simenon obviously hadn't forgotten Andrey Gide's advice to him. He does not use more than 2000 vocabulary. He ridiculed those "non-narrative" novels. The same characters, especially women, kept appearing in different books, and he didn't care.
He took Balzac as his model. The author of "Comedy on Earth" is also a quick hand and hastily took out the finished product. He also gained a reputation for writing popular novels. What is particularly noticeable is that Balzac has also been at odds with his mother for a lifetime. Simenon is very suitable to use this epitaph: "A novelist is also a person who doesn't like his mother."
Attachment 2 Communication is necessary / Haruki Murakami
There is a French writer named George Simenon whose precise style, keen observation and the touching atmosphere created in his works are his masterpieces. The Maigret Inspector series novels he wrote have won worldwide popularity. But he is famous not only because of more than two hundred works, but also because he is an active womanizer (playboy).
According to the author's confession in his later years, he "has had sexual relations with about 10,000 women from the age of thirteen to the present." This type of confession is inevitably a bit exaggerated, and we should not accept it all. His wife once said after his death that the number of 10,000 is absolutely impossible, "at most, it is 1,200 people." But even so, it's ferocious enough, don't you think?
According to his wife's testimony, Simeonon slept with the women next to him. The responsive women around him seemed to have problems, but the wives who knew so but were still there to count the number of people were also really good. What kind of couple is this?
Simenon claimed: "I don't regard sexual intercourse as immoral. I just need to seek communication." However, I think that in general, people in the world have ways to talk to people around them even if they don't have sexual relations (even if it's not enough) Seek communication and live on. In order to communicate with each other, it is necessary to have sex one by one, I am afraid that the body will not be able to bear it.
Mr. Simenon originally planned to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he failed in the end. But today, this kind of thing doesn't matter anymore. Please try to think about who picked the Nobel Prize in Literature three years ago. No one remembers it anymore. But the fact that Simeon is a sex mad has shined brilliantly (perhaps not necessarily?) in the history of literature as a legend.
Needless to say, in terms of sex, what matters is not quantity but quality. If the quality is satisfactory, it doesn't matter if there is only one opponent. However, even if I slept with 10,000 people of the opposite sex, I didn't know what to do, and everything was a waste of time and energy.
Let me talk about something that has nothing to do with sex-I am collecting LP records. It was purely accidental. I also started collecting at the age of thirteen. Now the quantity is quite considerable. It's almost all jazz from previous years. If someone asks me how many copies I have, I am not sure. I received a lot of money and threw away a lot, so I didn't have time to count the statistics. I guess it will probably not exceed 10,000, but there is no guarantee.
I want to ask what I want to say, that is, for collections (objects of painstaking effort), the problem is not the quantity, the important thing is to what extent you understand and love them, and to what extent the memory of them is vivid in your heart. . I think this is the original meaning of the word communication.
I went to the second-hand record shop day after day, flipped through the musty record sleeves with my fingers, and wondered his pain in my heart: Mr. Simeon must not be easy, too. There are all kinds of lives in the world.
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