What is one of the two main characters from a novel by an Irish avant-garde novelist who wrote in both English and French?
Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.
Guinguette by the Seine Guinguette by the Seine (Fr. "La Guinguette a deux sous", "the Tuppenny Bar") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret.