Download or read book Maupassant conteur et romancier written by Robert Lethbridge and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guy de Maupassant written by Christopher Lloyd and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most celebrated French storyteller of the nineteenth century, Guy de Maupassant was a master of the modern short story. Offering an intriguing picture of French life, his stories derive their enduring appeal from understated artistry, extreme craftsmanship, and the universality of his characters and their aspirations and misfortunes. His career as a professional writer lasted only twelve years before it was brutally cut short by the dreadful consequences of untreatable syphilis: chronic sickness, a failed suicide attempt, insanity, paralysis, and death after eighteen months’ confinement in a clinic. In this insightful and compelling biography, the only one in English currently available, Christopher Lloyd situates Maupassant’s life and work in the literary and social context of nineteenth-century France. He skillfully introduces the reader to Maupassant’s most famous works, such as Boule de suif, Bel-Ami, and Pierre et Jean, as well as highlights the important stages and achievements of his life and legacy.
Download or read book L Assommoir written by Émile Zola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband Coupeau squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, the local drinking shop, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor. L'Assommoir is the most finely crafted of Zola's novels, and this new translation captures not only the brutality but also the pathos of its characters' lives. This book is a pwerful indictment of nineteenth-century social conditions, and the introduction examines its relation to politics and art as well as its explosive effect on the literary scene. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book A further selection of the Chroniques of Guy de Maupassant written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second selection of Maupassant's chroniques, edited in their original French version, includes articles on a wide range of subjects. Many are on literary, artistic or social themes, some are inspired by political events of the day. In general, some of the lighter pieces have been chosen, but in all of them Maupassant has something important to say. Maupassant often uses his chroniques to rehearse themes and topics to be developed later in short stories or novels. It is true that he never sought to re-publish them after their initial appearance in Le Gaulois, Gil Blas, or Le Figaro, but this is not to say that he did not reveal much about his inner self in these writings. Though he sometimes referred to them disparagingly as an irksome weekly obligation, he continued to offer his chroniques to the Parisian dailies when fame and fortune ensured that he had little need of the extra income they brought in. He wrote almost as many chroniques as short stories - indeed the distinction between the two genres is not always clear - and, whether the tone is facetious, serious or ironic, one can sense that Maupassant enjoys this dialogue with a regular readership. Readers or critics who ignore the journalism deprive themselves of a significant part of his overall output. This second selection shows once again that Maupassant the short-story writer and novelist was also an entertaining and observant chronicler of events in the France of his day. Cette deuxième sélection de chroniques écrites par Guy de Maupassant, publiées en langue originale française, contient des articles sur la littérature, l'art, la vie sociale, ainsi que quelques morceaux inspirés par l'actualité politique. Les articles 'légers' ont été priviliégiés, mais dans tous ces articles, Maupassant a quelque chose d'important à dire. La chronique permet à Maupassant d'aborder des thèmes et des sujets qu'il va développer plus tard dans ses contes et ses romans. S'il est vrai qu'il n'essaya jamais de donner une forme plus permanente à ces articles, parus pour la plupart dans les colonnes du Gaulois, de Gil Blas, ou du Figaro, ceci ne signifie pas qu'il ne s'y découvrait pas. Certes, sa chronique hebdomadaire lui semblait souvent une corvée, mais il continuait à la rédiger même après avoir acquis une notoriété et une aisance financière suffisante pour renoncer au journalisme. Il composa presque autant de chroniques que de contes et de nouvelles - deux genres qu'il n'est d'ailleurs pas facile de distinguer l'un de l'autre. Et, quel que le soit le ton, facétieux, grave ou ironique, on sent, en lisant les chroniques, le plaisir que prend Maupassant à dialoguer ainsi avec ses lecteurs. Ceux qui font la moue devant ces articles de journal se privent d'une partie essentielle de son oeuvre. Ce deuxième choix de chroniques apporte à nouveau la preuve que le conteur et romancier Maupassant était aussi un observateur divertissant et vivant, un chroniqueur lucide et perspicace de la vie de la France et des Français.
Download or read book Guy de Maupassant s Selected Works First International Student Edition Norton Critical Editions written by Guy de Maupassant and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Smith successfully captures Maupassant’s depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid translation of some wonderful short stories.” —Library Journal The Norton Critical Edition includes: - Thirty of Maupassant’s best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith. - An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge. - Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant’s writing, including politics, war, love, despair, and the supernatural. - Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant’s time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mary Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
Download or read book Guy de Maupassant s Selected Works Norton Critical Editions written by Guy de Maupassant and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Smith successfully captures Maupassant’s depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid translation of some wonderful short stories.” —Library Journal The Norton Critical Edition includes: - Thirty of Maupassant’s best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith. - An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge. - Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant’s writing, including politics, war, love, despair, and the supernatural. - Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant’s time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mary Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
Download or read book Bel Ami written by Guy de Maupassant and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism. Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book uvres compl tes de Guy de Maupassant written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia written by Laurence M. Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustave Flaubert is probably the most famous novelist of nineteenth-century France, and his best known work, Madame Bovary, is read in numerous comparative literature and French courses. His fiction set the standard to which other authors turned to learn their craft, and his cult of art and his unrelenting search for stylistic perfection inspired many later writers, such as Maupassant, Proust, Conrad, Faulkner, and Joyce. His denunciation of materialistic, corrupt society; his fascination with altered states of consciousness; his oscillation between metaphysical longings and a radical nihilism; and his deep-seated mistrust of the adequacy of words themselves anticipate the works of contemporary authors. This reference is a convenient guide to his life and writings. Included in this volume are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on Flaubert's individual works and major characters; historical persons and events that shaped his life; the themes that run throughout his writings; the critical approaches employed by scholars studying his works; and related topics of interest. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and most close with a brief bibliography. All of his major works are treated at length, and the volume mentions nearly every unpublished project of his that has a title. The book concludes with a selected, general bibliography of major studies.
Download or read book 120 nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant La Chevelure et autres histoires written by Guy de Maupassant and published by SAGA Egmont. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce recueil est composé des nouvelles suivantes : La Chevelure L'Homme-fille La Moustache L'Anglais d'Étretat Rosalie Prudent La Tombe Le Protecteur La Mère aux Monstres La Bécasse Après Alexandre L'Armoire L'Ami Patience Madame Hermet L'Horrible La Folle Clair de Lune Menuet En Voyage Le Baiser Le Donneur d'eau bénite Un Portrait Julie Romain Le Fermier Coco Le Gueux Humble Drame Une Vendetta L'Ami Joseph L'Attente Le Verrou La Légende du Mont-Saint-Michel Correspondance La Bûche La Roche aux Guillemots La Relique Suicides Jadis Le Mariage du Lieutenant Laré L'Endormeuse Nos lettres La Nuit La Baronne Le Père Clochette Amour La Question du Latin Découverte Adieu En Mer Mademoiselle Cocotte Le Petit Le Mal d'André L'Enfant Pierrot L'Infirme L'Inconnue Garçon, un bock !... Un Sage La Confession – tirée du recueil de nouvelles « Contes du jour et de la nuit » Le Père Milon L'Orphelin Un Parricide Une Ruse Madame Baptiste Le Trou La Confession – tirée du recueil de nouvelles « Le Rosier de Mme Husson » Rose L'Ivrogne Le Petit Fût Un Million Par un soir de printemps Auprès d'un mort Au bois La Main Le Modèle La Ficelle Aux champs Le Noyé Mademoiselle Perle Petit soldat Le Pain maudit Une Soirée Denis Apparition Une Soirée Tombouctou L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs Au printemps Le Rosier de Madame Husson Imprudence Joseph Un lâche Mon Oncle Jules Première Neige Le Masque Le Marquis de Fumerol La Bête à Maît' Belhomme Le Garde Le Vieux À Cheval Boitelle Berthe Les Tombales L'Abandonné Ce cochon de Morin Un Coup d'État L'Âne Châli Toine Le Papa de Simon La Parure Le Lapin L'Auberge Qui sait ? Épaves Une Partie de Campagne Miss Harriet L'Inutile Beauté En Famille
Download or read book Maupassant s Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life written by Laurence A. Gregorio and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naturalists wrote from a «scientific» point of view, and no science had more currency in society in the late nineteenth century than Darwin's theory of evolution. Until now, this motif in Guy de Maupassant has escaped critical attention. Maupassant's Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life examines evolutionary theory in the literature in a way accessible to students of literature and science alike. It first explains the theoretical basis and Maupassant's affinity for it, then studies one short story, «La Ficelle», in its entirety, proposing a new and interesting interpretation based on evidence read through a Darwinian lens.The remaining chapters organize a lively Darwinian reading of Maupassant according to topics such as natural selection, heredity, and materialism. The book shows that Darwinism and the economic variety of Social Darwinism figure significantly in Maupassant's fiction. It is a must for students and teachers of Naturalism and Darwinism across the liberal arts.
Download or read book Pierre et Jean written by Guy de Maupassant and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry James Henry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy, triggered by one of the two brothers of its title finding himself the sole inheritor of the fortune of his mother's former lover. Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. But Maupassant's achievement is to have woven from this simple plot in a maritime context a brilliantly crafted exploration of the complexities at the heart of family life.
Download or read book CONTES ET NOUVELLES de Guy de Maupassant written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Arvensa Editions. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 2563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nouvelle édition d'Arvensa Editions : CONTES ET NOUVELLES de Guy de Maupassant Une sélection de plusieurs centaines de Contes et Nouvelles, écrits par le grand conteur du XIXème siècle que fut Guy de Maupassant, composent cette nouvelle édition. L'édition est augmentée d'annexes. L'ouvrage a été conçu pour un confort de lecture et de navigation optimal sur votre liseuse. CONTENU DÉTAILLÉ : Le docteur Héraclius Gloss Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris Boule de Suif La maison Tellier (Histoire d’une fille de ferme • Une partie de campagne • Le Papa de Simon • ...) Mademoiselle Fifi (Madame Baptiste • La Rouille • Marroca • ...) Contes de la Bécasse (La bécasse • Ce Cochon de Morin • La Folle • ...) Clair de Lune (Un Coup d’état • Le Loup • L’Enfant • Conte de Noël • ...) Miss Harriet (A Madame •L’Héritage •Denis • L’Âne • ... ) Le père Milon (Par un soir de printemps • L’aveugle • Le Gâteau • ...) Les soeurs Rondoli (La Patronne • Le Petit Fût • Lui ? • ...) Yvette (Le Retour • L’Abandonné • Les idées du Colonel • ...) Toine (L’Ami Patience • La Dot • L’Homme-fille • ...) Contes du jour et de la nuit (Le Crime au père Boniface • Rose • Le Père • ... ) Monsieur Parent (La bête à Maît’ Belhomme • À vendre • L’Inconnue • ...) La petite Roque (L’épave • L’Ermite • Mademoiselle Perle • ...) Le Horla (Amour • Le trou • Clochette • ...) Le rosier de madame Husson (Un échec • Enragée ? • Le modèle • ...) La main gauche (Allouma • Hautot père et fils • Boitelle • ...) L’inutile beauté (Le champ d’oliviers • Mouche • Le noyé • ...) Nouvelles parues en 1881 (Opinion Publique • Histoire d'un chien • Histoire Corse • ...) Nouvelles parues en 1882 (Pétition d'un Viveur malgré lui • Souvenir • Conflits pour rire • ...) Nouvelles parues en 1883 (M Jocaste • La Toux • Auprès d'un mort • ...) Contes divers de 1875 à 1880 (La Main d’écorché • Le Donneur d'eau bénite • « Coco, Coco, Coco frais ! » • ...) Contes divers de 1884 (Lettre trouvée sur un noyé • Misti • Notes d’un voyageur • ...) Contes divers de 1885 (Blanc et bleu • Lettre d'un Fou • Une Lettre • ...) Contes divers de 1886 (Voyage de santé • Misère humaine • Jour de fête • ...) Annexes : Étude de Guy de Maupassant par Pol Neveux Notes de collège A PROPOS DE L'ÉDITEUR : Les éditions Arvensa sont les leaders de la littérature classique numérique. Leur objectif est de vous faire connaître les oeuvres des grands auteurs de la littérature classique en langue française à un prix abordable tout en vous fournissant la meilleure expérience de lecture sur votre liseuse. Tous les titres sont produits avec le plus grand soin. Chaque édition contient un système de navigation intuitif et ergonomique: • Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. • Accédez instantanément à la table des matières hyperliée globale. • Une table des matières est placée également au début de chaque titre. Le service qualité s’engage à vous répondre dans les 48h. Retrouvez les actualités et tous les titres des éditions Arvensa sur leur site
Download or read book Surfacing the Politics of Desire written by Rajeshwari S. Vallury and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-08-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A particular model of masculine desire has traditionally been evoked in an effort to understand the subordinate role of women in male-authored fiction. Because of this, the belief that male-authored texts are unfailingly built upon the denial of feminine difference has come to dominate many aspects of literary studies. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire re-examines the "myths" of masculine desire in order to challenge this premise, placing literature at the centre of recent feminist debates over the ontology and politics of sexual difference. Citing examples of textual resistance to analytical feminist thought, Rajeshwari S. Vallury argues that literature is expressive of desires that are not always configured in terms of oppression or the denial of difference. In other words, a particular politics of reading obscures the multiplicity of desire that literature is capable of affirming and risks sacrificing the possibilities of both literature and desire. Through a re-evaluation of the sexual politics practiced by nineteenth-century male writers such as Balzac, Gautier, and Maupassant, Vallury moves towards a reconfiguration of the relationship between aesthetics and politics. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire calls into question dominant feminist approaches to the literary representation of gender. Enlisting the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, Vallury calls for a different method of reading, one based on a deeper understanding of the politics of literature.
Download or read book Short Stories Knowledge and the Supernatural written by Amândio Reis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by investigating a transnational and multilingual connection between genre, theme and theory, i.e., between the modern short story, the supernatural and the problem of knowledge. Incorporating a close analysis of the literary texts into a discussion of their historical context, the book argues that Machado, James and Maupassant explore and reinvent the supernatural short story as a metafictional genre. This modernized and innovative form allows them to challenge the dichotomies and conventions of realist and supernatural fiction, inviting their past and present readers to question common assumptions on reality and literary representation.
Download or read book Medical Examinations written by Mary Donaldson-Evans and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the crude battlefield surgery of Revolutionary times to the birth of modern clinical medicine, the nineteenth century witnessed impressive developments in the medical sciences and a concomitant growth in the prestige of the medical practitioner. In France this phenomenon had important implications for literature as writers scrambled to give legitimacy to their enterprise by allying themselves with science. Overflowing its traditional banks, medical discourse inundated the field of French literature, particularly in the realist and naturalist movements. The literati's enthrallment with medicine and their subservient adoption of a medical model in the creation of their plots and characters have not previously been seriously questioned. In Medical Examinations, Mary Donaldson-Evans corrects this oversight. Exploring six novels and two short stories published during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, she argues that there was a growing resistance to medicine's linguistic and professional hegemony, a resistance fraught with ideological implications. Tainted by a subtle?and sometimes not so subtle?anti-Semitism, some of the fiction of this period adopts counterdiscursive strategies to tar the physician with his own brush. Featured authors include Gustave Flaubert, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, Emile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse and Läon Daudet.
Download or read book Guy de Maupassant uvres compl tes written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Arvensa Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nouvelle édition des oeuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant. Elle comprend 67 titres soit l'intégralité des romans, récits de voyage, contes, théâtre, poésies, chroniques et correspondances. Contenu détaillé : Les 8 ROMANS : Une Vie - Bel-Ami - Mont-Oriol - Pierre et Jean - Fort comme la mort - Notre Cœur - L’Âme étrangère - L'Angélus Les 5 RÉCITS DE VOYAGE : Au soleil - Sur l'eau - En Corse - Fragments - La vie errante Les 28 titres des recueils de CONTES ET NOUVELLES : Le docteur Héraclius Gloss - Les dimanches d’un bourgeois de Paris - Boule de suif - La maison Tellier - Mademoiselle Fifi - Contes de la bécasse - Clair de lune - Miss Harriet - Le père Millon - Les soeurs Rondoli - Yvette - Toine - Contes du jour et de la nuit - Monsieur Parent - La petite Roque - Le Horla - Le rosier de Madame Husson - La main gauche - L'inutile beauté - Nouvelles parues en 1881 - Nouvelles parues en 1882 - Nouvelles parues en 1883 - Contes divers 1875-1880 - Contes divers 1884 - Contes divers 1885 - Contes divers 1886 - Contes divers 1887 - Contes divers 1889 Les 7 pièces de THÉÂTRE : Histoire du vieux temps - Une répétition - Musotte - Yvette - La paix du ménage - La trahison de la comtesse de Rhune - La demande Les 2 titres des POÉSIES : Des Vers - Autres poèmes Les 13 recueils de CHRONIQUES organisées par année de 1876 à 1891 LA CORRESPONDANCE Les 3 titres des Annexes : Biographie panoramique - Étude de Guy de Maupassant par Pol Neveux - Notes de collège ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. - Accédez instantanément à la table des matières hyperliée globale. - Une table des matières est placée également au début de chaque titre. A PROPOS DE L'ÉDITEUR : Les éditions Arvensa sont les leaders de la littérature classique numérique. Leur objectif est de vous faire connaître les oeuvres des grands auteurs de la littérature classique en langue française à un prix abordable tout en vous fournissant la meilleure expérience de lecture sur votre liseuse. Tous les titres sont produits avec le plus grand soin. Le service qualité des éditions Arvensa s’engage à vous répondre dans les 48h.
