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...
Pierre et Jean is a naturalist or psycho-realist work written by Guy de Maupassant in Étretat in his native Normandy between June and September 1887 . This was Maupassant’s shortest novel. It appeared in three instalments in the Nouvelle Revue and...
Reitel, Bernard, Patricia Zender, Jean Luc Permay et Jean Pierre Renard Villes et Frontieres Paris : Economica / Anthropos Collection Villes, 2002. 275 pp. ISBN 2717844589 Villes et Frontieres is about cities and borders, and how and why their inter-linked and inter-dependent transformations...
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...
