Boule de Suif

by Guy de Maupassant, Andrew Brown (Translator)

Overview

A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain them until one of their party, the prostitute Boule de Suif, consents to sleep with their officer. When Boule de Suif refuses to do so on account of her principles and patriotic sentiments, the solidarity initially manifested by her fellow travellers becomes increasingly tested as the deadlock continues, and the strained relationship between her and her “respectable” counterparts gradually worsens.

A scathing satire of bourgeois prejudice and hypocrisy and a compelling snapshot of France during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, 'Boule de Suif' – here presented with five other major stories by the author of Bel Ami – was declared a masterpiece by Flaubert and is widely considered to be Maupassant's finest short story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847497642
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	04/27/2021
Series:	Alma Classics 101 Pages
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.09(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Andrew Brown is a leading religious journalist and an editorial board member, leader-writer and feature writer for the Guardian. He also writes frequently for the BBC, Spectator and The Oldie. Andrew is the winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, the Templeton European Prize for Religious Journalism and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize for Science writing for his book In the Beginning was the Worm. He has been Press columnist for the Church Times since 1996.

Editorial Reviews

An exceedingly sharp satire of flexible French morals among different classes during the nineteenth-century German occupation.” —The Guardian

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