Best of Guy De Maupassant (English and French Edition) - Softcover

Guy De Maupassant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8129101297 ISBN 13: 9788129101297

Publisher: Rupa & Co., 2006

Synopsis

Maupassant's experiences in the army during the Anglo-Prussian War provided him with ingredients for some of the finest short stories.He wrote about 300 short stories and six novels.But inspite of his wealth and fame,he was deeply distressed as his precocious and colourful life had inflicted on him with syphilis.He started hallucinating,and in 1892 even tried to commit suicide.Confined to a lunatic asylum in Paris,Maupassant died on 6 July 1893.The present collection showcases some of his most admired short stories such as Ball-of-Fat,Francis,He os dealing with a plethora of emotions. Meet Maupassant at his very best.

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About the Author:

One of the greatest French short story writers,Maupassant was born on August 5,1850.He was introduced to the literary circle by his mother's friend Gustave Flaubert.In 1980 he published his first short story Boule de Suit that created a sensation.His first novel Unne Vie was applauded by Leo Tolstoy as the best French novel since Les Miserables.

Review:

Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this respect. His stories about expensive jewelry ("La Parure", "Les Bijoux") are imitated with a twist by Maugham ("Mr Know-All", "A String of Beads") and Henry James. Taking his cue from Balzac, Maupassant wrote comfortably in both the high-Realist and fantastic modes; stories and novels such as "L'Héritage" and Bel-Ami aim to recreate Third Republic France in a realistic way, whereas many of the short stories (notably "Le Horla", cited as an inspiration for H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu", and "Qui sait ?") describe apparently supernatural phenomena. The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds; Maupassant was fascinated by the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry, and attended the public lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot between 1885 and 1886.This interest is reflected in his fiction --Wikipedia

About this edition

• Publisher: Rupa & Co.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 8129101297
• ISBN 13: 9788129101297
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 194