Boule de suif

by Guy de Maupassant

Overview

This collection, set in Normandy, opens with Boule de Suif, Maupassant's "masterpiece" according to Flaubert. The storyteller's art lets us see the intimacy of rural life, at the opposite end of the spectrum from the artificial and worldly Parisian universe. But this life set to the rhythm of nature is just as cruel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782385081034
Publisher:	Culturea
Publication date:	08/10/2022
Pages:	34
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.08(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a prolific French writer best remembered as a master of the short story and a father of the genre. He delighted in clever plotting and served as a model for later short story practitioners through favorites such as "The Necklace," "The Horla," "The False Gems," and "Useless Beauty." Maupassant wrote some 300 short stories, as well as six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.

Editorial Reviews

Review - French Le recueil s'ouvre avec Boule de suif, le chef-d'oeuvre de Maupassant de l'avis meme de Flaubert. L'ensemble de ces nouvelles a pour cadre la Normandie, du pays de Caux au Mont-Saint-Michel. L'art du conteur nous fait penetrer dans l'intimite des moindres details d'une vie rurale aux antipodes de l'univers factice et mondain parisien. Mais cette vie au rythme de la nature est tout aussi cruelle, a l'image de la chasse. Ces recits, tantot cyniques, tantot humoristiques, revelent la tristesse profonde cachee sous les faits , car, au rebours de la morale apprise, la morale collective place toujours l'interet au-dessus de tout. L'edition de Marie-Claire Bancquart met en lumiere les sources d'inspiration de Maupassant et sa maitrise de l'art du recit court.

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