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Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They focus on the relationships between men and women, as in the poignant fantasy of 'A Parisian Affair', between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. Through these relationships, Maupassant explores the dualistic nature of the human character and his stories reveal both nobility, civility and generosity, and, in stories such as 'At Sea' and 'Boule de Suif', vanity, greed and hypocrisy. Maupassant's stories repeatedly lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty.
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Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) was a literary disciple of Flaubert and one of the group of young Naturalistic writers that formed around Zola. Maupassant's contribution to the Naturalists collaborative collection of tales, Les Soirées de Medan, was 'Boule de suif', which remains one of the most well-known of the hundreds of stories he wrote over the course of his life and on which his literary reputation now rests. He also wrote six novels, including Bel-Ami (1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888).
Sian Miles was born in Wales and educated there and in France where she lived for many years. She now teaches at Warwick University and is the author of an anthology of the writings of Simone Weil, and translations of George Sand's Marianne, Violet Trefusis's Echo, and has collaborated on Paul Valéry's Cahiers/ Notebooks.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I am growing to like French literature, this is the best I have read yet.
The stories are short,each is between about 3 and 6 pages long.
His descriptive ablity is just wonderful, be it describing a rivers lazy path through the countryside or a frosty morning.
Some of the sories can have a gloomy ending that no doubt reflect his life.
The translation is lovely apart from one let down,it may seem a little nit picking but in one story we read a letter from a servant to his master about some returned furniture.
The servant is quoted as saying "He could not get his head around" the return of the furniture.
Unless am mistaken I do not think a servant in the 1880s or so would use a term like this that was probably invented in the 21st century.
A minor point granted and not one that should put you off buying it. A really lovely book well worth reading.
I will be reading more of his stories.
The stories are short,each is between about 3 and 6 pages long.
His descriptive ablity is just wonderful, be it describing a rivers lazy path through the countryside or a frosty morning.
Some of the sories can have a gloomy ending that no doubt reflect his life.
The translation is lovely apart from one let down,it may seem a little nit picking but in one story we read a letter from a servant to his master about some returned furniture.
The servant is quoted as saying "He could not get his head around" the return of the furniture.
Unless am mistaken I do not think a servant in the 1880s or so would use a term like this that was probably invented in the 21st century.
A minor point granted and not one that should put you off buying it. A really lovely book well worth reading.
I will be reading more of his stories.
Format:Paperback
A good book with a good translation. Nice to have it if you have some spare time to kill.Includes many popular stories, like with all Maupassant's stories with a piquant taste and spicyness to it of personal affairs of 19 century. A good glimpse into that era.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I know that Guy de Maupassant is a famous writer, but somehow I'd never read anything by him before. My husband had asked me to order this book for him and after he'd read it I casually picked it up and was hooked by the very readable short-stories contained in this book. They range widely in subject matter but are characterized by being clever, humorous or thought-provoking and sometimes all three. Although written over a hundred years ago the stories are still relevant today as they frequently depict human foibles and frailties that don't change much over the centuries.
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