Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) is the most celebrated of French short-story writers. The brilliance of his technique is combined with an ethical nihilism. Guy de Maupassant was born on Aug. 5, 1850, in Normandy; his exact birthpla...
Acknowledged throughout the world as one of the masters of the short story, Guy de Maupassant was also the author of a collection of poetry, a volume of plays, six novels, three travel journals, and many chronicles. However, he clearly excelled in the sh...
Dans les flancs de ma Mere une guerre intestine De nos divisions lui marqua l'origine. Elles ont, tu le sais, paru dans le berceau Et nous suivront peut-etre encor dans le tombeau. --Jean Racine, La Thebaide 4.1 (923-26) La derniere dechirure etait faite; il...
Guy de Maupassant's fantastic short stories mix the supernatural and the natural world to transform 'the familiar into the strange.' Examples of his output in this genre include 'Le Horla,' 'L'Auberge,' 'Magnetisme,' and 'Reves.' In all, he provides a kind of desultory denouement which...
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