Maigret’s Room
John Lanchester: The Home Life of Inspector Maigret, 4 June 2020
“... the thinking, ellipses and jumps and ultra-short paragraphs.From The Madman of Bergerac (1932), in Ros Schwartz’s translation:The air was warm and stuffy. There was a faint hissing sound, as if there was a leak in the radiator pipes. Maigret could hear the person in the top bunk tossing and turning and breathing heavily.The inspector silently removed ... ”