| Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Fiction, Classics, Short Stories Contributor(s): de Maupassant, Guy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592244238 ISBN-13: 9781592244232 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.26" W x 9.3" (0.99 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Zola had contributed the manuscript of the "Attaque du Moulin," and it was at Maupassant's house that the five young men gave in their contributions. Each one read his story, Maupassant being the last. When he had finished Boule de Suif, with a spontaneous impulse, with an emotion they never forgot, filled with enthusiasm at this revelation, they all rose and, without superfluous words, acclaimed him as a master. He undertook to write the article for the Gaulois and, in cooperation with his friends, he worded it in the terms with which we are familiar, amplifying and embellishing it, yielding to an inborn taste for mystification which his youth rendered excusable. The essential point, he said, is to "unmoor" criticism. It was unmoored. The following day Wolff wrote a polemical dissertation in the Figaro and carried away his colleagues. The volume was a brilliant success, thanks to Boule de Suif. Despite the novelty, the honesty of effort, on the part of all, no mention was made of the other stories. Relegated to the second rank, they passed without notice. From his first battle, Maupassant was master of the field in literature. |
Contributor Bio(s): de Maupassant, Guy: - "Henri Ren' 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 prot'g' of Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, effortless d'nouements (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." |