| Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant, Fiction, Classics Contributor(s): de Maupassant, Guy (Author) |
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ISBN: 159224422X ISBN-13: 9781592244225 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: "We fancied each other and that's that. Now it's over." Georges Duroy (the protagonist of _Bel Ami, _ Guy de Maupassant's first novel-length work), is a cad -- a social climber who literally sleeps his way to the top. Her is a young former soldier, a man fighting for social and material position in the rat race that was Paris of 1870s. Scandal, political intrigue and sexual manipulation balance beauitiful against by de Maupassant's cruel wit -- and also against his love of life. Duroy becomes a sort of male Madame Bovary -- but where Bovary's amorality brings her little but misery, Duroy's pays off. In many ways what de Maupassant tells is a cynical and amoral tale -- but there is a ring of truth about it; de Maupassant offers us an insight we had not dare forget. . . . |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 208 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): de Maupassant, Guy: - "Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouements (outcomes). Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught up in events beyond their control, are permanently changed by their experiences. He wrote some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books and one volume of verse. His first published story, "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat," 1880), is often considered his masterpiece." |