Guy de Maupassant

Reproduction of the original: Notre Coeur or a Woman's Pastime by Guy de Maupassant

Reproduction of the original: Mont Oriol or a Romance of Auvergne by Guy de Maupassant

Reproduction of the original: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 by Guy de Maupassant

Reproduction of the original: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII by Guy De Maupassant

Reproduction of the original: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII by Guy De Maupassant

Reproduction of the original: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 by Guy de Maupassant

La collection Conna tre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilit de tout savoir du roman Une vie, de Maupassant, gr ce une fiche de lecture aussi compl te que d taill e. La r daction, claire et accessible, a t confi e un sp cialiste universitaire. Cette fiche de lecture r pond une charte qualit mise en place par une quipe d'enseignants. Ce livre contient la biographie de Guy de Maupassant, la pr sentation de l'oeuvre, le r sum d taill (chapitre par chapitre), les raisons du succ s et les th mes principaux.

A priest receives an unexpected visitor from his past. A triumphant celebration ends in murder. A doctor tells of an unrequited love that only ended with death. Maupassant's direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist's primary duty was faithfulness to his own perceptions, made his work a challenge to many of his nineteenth-century English readers, but in Henry James's view, his vision was, 'altogether of this life'. His stories may have mystified contemporary moralists, but he was championed by writers who admired his resistance to self-censorship and applauded the economy of his style. In this new selection of his best stories, the sensitive and faithful translations of Ada Galsworthy and Elsie Martindale Hueffer show why writers like Conrad (whose preface is included) and Ford Madox Ford revered Maupassant's work.

The French director Max Oph ls chose the three stories that make up this book in 1952 to create a beautiful film, The Pleasure. With brief but exact brushstrokes, irony, and an excellent ability to observe reality, a narrative is embodied where the characters, often people that Maupassant himself had known, appear as unforgettable creatures who, struck by the ups and downs of the passion, are portrayed with humanity and humor.

Olivier Bertin, un peintre c l bre et mondain, voit d filer dans son atelier parisien les plus belles femmes de la haute soci t . Il se montre difficile et se fait payer fort cher . Il tombe un jour amoureux d'une d'elle, Anne de Guilleroy, s duit par sa gr ce et son l gance. Fille d'un riche commer ant, elle est mari e un d put enrichi de la petite noblesse normande et m re d'une fillette de six ans. Elle devient tr s vite sa ma tresse... Fort comme la mort est le cinqui me roman de Guy de Maupassant, commenc en mars 1888, et publi en 1889. Son titre est tir du Cantique des cantiques: L'amour est fort comme la mort, et la jalousie est dure comme le s pulcre. L'oeuvre fut dit e en volume, en mai 1889, chez Ollendorff.

Guy de Maupassant: Stark wie der Tod. Roman Lesefreundlicher Gro druck in 16-pt-Schrift Gro format, 210 x 297 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2019 Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken Fort comme la mort. Erstdruck 1889. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Kopfstudie einer blonden Frau, 1898. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 16 pt. Henricus Edition Deutsche Klassik UG (haftungsbeschr nkt)