The Shadow in the Courtyard (other English-language titles are Maigret Mystified and The Shadow Puppet; French: L'Ombre chinoise) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret. The novel was written in Antibes in December 1931 and was published a month later, in January 1932, by the Parisian publishing house Fayard.[1]
The book has been translated three times into English: in 1934 by Anthony Abbot as The Shadow in the Courtyard , in 1964 as Maigret Mystified by Jean Stewart, and in 2015 by Ros Schwartz as The Shadow Puppet.[2]
The first German translation by Milo Dor and Reinhard Federmann was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1959. The new translation by Claus Sprick was published by Diogenes Verlag in 1982.[3]
Adaptationsedit
The novel has been adapted five times for film and television: in Italian in 2004 as L'ombra cinese, with Sergio Castellitto in the main role and in 1966 as L'ombra cinese, with Gino Cervi in the lead role;[4][5] in French in 2004 as L'ombre chinoise, with Bruno Cremer in the main role and in 1969 as L'Ombre chinoise with Jean Richard in the lead role;[6][7] in English in 1961 as Shadow Play, with Rupert Davies in the main role.[8][9]
Receptionedit
Anthony Boucher of The New York Times summarized the novel in 1964: "Maigret works against a background of respectable middle-class apartments, a cheap music hall and a sordid hotel in the Place Pigalle, all vividly realized, to solve a safe-robbery-plus-murder that reveals an unusually well-characterized killer".[10]
Bibliographyedit
Maurice Piron; Michel Lemoine (1983). L'Univers de Simenon, guide des romans et nouvelles (1931-1972) de Georges Simenon. Presses de la Cité. pp. 278–279. ISBN978-2-258-01152-6. (in French)
Referencesedit
^Notice bibliographique zu L’ombre chinoise auf der Maigret-Seite von Yves Martina.
^Publication history at trussel.com.; retrieved 15 February 2023.
^Oliver Hahn: Bibliografie deutschsprachiger Ausgaben. In: Georges-Simenon-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Simenon-Jahrbuch 2003. Wehrhahn, Laatzen 2004, ISBN 3-86525-101-3, S. 72.
^Vitali, Alessandra (12 November 2004). "Castellitto diventa Maigret "Come se fosse davvero esistito"". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 8 March 2023.
^Derchi, Andrea; Biggio, Marco (2001). Gino Cervi: attore protagonista del '900. Erga. p. 324. ISBN9788881632381. OCLC 48108069.
^"Maigret et l'ombre chinoise Champions du monde". Le Monde (in French). 22 May 2004. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
^Doniak, Jean-Marc (1998). Les fictions françaises à la télévision: 1945-1990, 15000 œuvres. Dixit. p. 278. ISBN978-2-906587-88-5. OCLC 293547679.
^"Maigret: Shadow Play". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 23 October 1961. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
^Film history at trussel.com.; retrieved 15 February 2023.
^Boucher, Anthony (27 September 1964). "Criminals At Large". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
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