Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945.Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu&ntild...
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Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature; as such, she will always be seen as a representative figu...
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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 ...
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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 m...
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In the following essay, Mortimer analyzes Maupassant's use of second-story construction in several of his stories.
It is the excess of the suggested meaning—it is the rendering this the ...
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In the following essay, Stadt asserts that “Les Tombales” “reveals itself to be a metacritical tale whose principal theses are misinterpretation and narrative autonomy.”
By...
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In the following essay, Hadlock discusses the function of the monster in “La Mère aux monsters.”
Few subjects seem to have intrigued Guy de Maupassant as much as monsters. His sho...
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In the following essay, Stivale explores the role and function of narrative desire in “La Petite Roque.”
A widower overcome by a maddening passion that results in the rape and murder of ...
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In the following essay, Orlich probes links between “Promenade” and Henry James's novella The Beast in the Jungle.
… An achievement in art or in letters grows more interest...
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In the following essay, Hottell examines the function of the ambiguous denouement of several of Maupassant's fantastic stories.
Tzvetan Todorov's seminal work, Introduction a la litterat...
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In the following essay, MacLachlan and Reid provide a stylistic analysis of “La Chevelure,” focusing on the frame narrative of the story.
Much of the work of Ross Chambers comprises a se...
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In the following essay, Mead investigates Maupassant's broad social vision in his story “La Maison Tellier.”
To most readers, Maupassant offers two faces. On the one hand, he is w...
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In the following essay, Leabhart offers a structural examination of Maupassant's “L'Aveu.”
Guy de Maupassant's short story “L'Aveu” is, on sever...
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In the following essay, Millstone explores the figure of the prostitute in “Le Lit 29” and reflects “on the ways in which the very structure of Maupassant's tale supports h...
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In the following essay, Moger discusses Maupassant's narrative technique of using "framed" stories, where the story within the story is actually the primary tale within the frame....
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In the following excerpt, Donaldson-Evans examines Maupassant's skepticism of traditional religion through his portrayal of various feminine types, including the pious woman; the woman who iden...
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In the following essay, Harris focuses on Maupassant's journalistic writings, pointing out how understanding Maupassant's nostalgia for the past (including his elitism and nationalism) a...
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In the following excerpt, Stivale examines Maupassant's portrayal of the struggle between prostitutes and their environment through their relationships with les hommesfilles (men-harlots). The ...
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In the following excerpt, Poteau-Tralie traces the portrayal of the mother in Maupassant's works—focusing on the "good" mother, the criminal mother, the monstrous mother, a...
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In the following essay, Cogman discusses how Maupassant, in his disgust for censorship of any kind, demonstrated his desire to expose the shocking and the explicit (especially with regard to sexual ma...
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In the following excerpt, Sullivan categorizes Guy de Maupassant's short fiction.
1. Introduction
The world created by a short-story writer has its own coherence, its own identifying characteri...
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In the following essay, Killick considers the influence of Gustave Flaubert on Guy de Maupassant through a comparison of two stories that share similar elements of plot and theme.
Flaubert's ro...
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Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
D. Hampton Morris
