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Guy de Maupassant

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1778: 1517:'We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. And for twenty years we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal.' 599: 382: 824:, Maupassant is the greatest master of the short story in world literature. He is not a naturalist like Zola; to him, physiological processes do not constitute the basis of human actions, although the influence of the environment is manifested in his prose. In many respects, Maupassant's naturalism is Schopenhauerian anthropological pessimism, as he is often harsh and merciless when it comes to depicting human nature. He owes most to Flaubert, from whom he learned to use a concise and measured style and to establish a distance towards the object of narration." He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for 363: 793: 176: 891: 390: 59: 637: 762:(erected 1887/89). He often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base, not out of preference for the food but because only there could he avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile. He and forty-six other Parisian literary and artistic notables attached their names to an elaborately irate letter of protest against the tower's construction, written to the Minister of Public Works, and published on 14 February 1887. 371: 355: 1809: 942:"I cannot at all conceive in which century of history one could haul together such inquisitive and at the same time delicate psychologists as one can in contemporary Paris: I can name as a sample – for their number is by no means small, ... or to pick out one of the stronger race, a genuine Latin to whom I am particularly attached, Guy de Maupassant." 633:
one masterpiece after another, slashing his excited brain with champagne, ether and drugs of all sorts. Women after women in endless succession hastened the destruction, women recruited from all quarters... actresses, ballet-dancers, midinettes, grisettes, common prostitutes-- 'le taureau triste' his friends used to call him.
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had already begun its work of destruction in this magnificent brain. Did he know it himself? I often thought he did. The MS. of his Sur L'Eau was lying on the table between us, he had just read me a few chapters, the best thing he had ever written I thought. He was still producing with feverish haste
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he had contracted in his youth. It has been suggested that his brother, Hervé, also suffered from syphilis and that the disease may have been congenital. On 2 January 1892, Maupassant tried to take his own life by cutting his throat; he was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at
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in Normandy. At the Villa des Verguies, between the sea and the luxuriant countryside, he grew very fond of fishing and of outdoor activities. When Guy reached the age of thirteen, his mother placed her two sons as day boarders in a private school, the Institution Leroy-Petit, in Rouen—the
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After the separation, Laure Le Poittevin kept custody of her two sons. In the absence of the Maupassant's father, his mother became the most influential figure in the young boy's life. She was an exceptionally well-read woman and was very fond of classical literature, particularly
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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 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story,
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Questor employs Maupassant's theory that, "the human female will open her mind to a man to whom she has opened other channels of communications." In the script Questor copulates with a woman to obtain information that she is reluctant to impart. Due to complaints from
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was of short duration; his frank and practical nature reacted against the ambiance of gossip, scandal, duplicity, and invidious criticism that the two brothers had created around them in the guise of an 18th-century style
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The decade from 1880 to 1891 was the most fertile period of Maupassant's life. Made famous by his first short story, he worked methodically and produced two or sometimes four volumes annually. His talent and practical
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When Maupassant was 11 and his brother Hervé was five, his mother, an independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace to obtain a legal separation from her husband, who was violent towards her.
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or form "de Maupassant" instead of "Maupassant" as his family name, in order to indicate noble birth. Gustave’s great-great-grandfather, Jean-Baptiste de Maupassant (1699–1774),
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Gustave Flaubert took him under his protection and acted as a kind of literary guardian to him, guiding his debut in journalism and literature. At Flaubert's home he met
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The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds; Maupassant was fascinated by the burgeoning discipline of
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in Rouen where he proved a good scholar, indulging in poetry and taking a prominent part in theatricals. In October 1868, at the age of 18, he saved the famous poet
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In his later years he developed a constant desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death and paranoia of persecution caused by the
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His editor, Victor Havard, commissioned him to write more stories, and Maupassant continued to produce them efficiently and frequently. His second novel,
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Abamine, E. P. "German-French Sexual Encounters of the Franco-Prussian War Period in the Fiction of Guy de Maupassant."
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Maupassant is considered a father of the modern short story. Literary theorist Kornelije Kvas wrote that along "with
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With a natural aversion to society, he loved retirement, solitude, and meditation. He traveled extensively in
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broke out soon after his graduation from college in 1870 and Maupassant volunteered to serve in the
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Le V. Maupassant in the Hall of Mirrors: Ironies of Repetition in the Work of Guy de Maupassant
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You’ve Got To Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe.
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Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity: Illegitimacy in Guy de Maupassant and André Gide
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19.2 (2011): 213–241. regarding both versions of his horror story "The Horla" (1886/87).
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and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly effortless
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Illusion and reality: a study of descriptive techniques in the works of Guy de Maupassant
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Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850 at the late 16th-century
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The art of rupture: narrative desire and duplicity in the tales of Guy de Maupassant
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himself "de Maupassant" instead of "Maupassant", being formally assumed as the
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Flaubert continued to act as his literary godfather. His friendship with the
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In 1881 he published his first volume of short stories under the title of
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on the insistence of his mother. Next year, in autumn, he was sent to the
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Maupassant was one of a fair number of 19th-century Parisians (including
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France in a realistic way, whereas many of the short stories (notably "
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and became a contributing editor to several leading newspapers such as
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Recensement et analyse des écrits non romanesques de Guy de Maupassant
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Rougle, Charles. "Art and the Artist in Babel's" Guy de Maupassant"."
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Sattar, Atia. "Certain Madness: Guy de Maupassant and Hypnotism".
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wrote a short story about him, "Guy de Maupassant." It appears in
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Schmidt, Albert-Marie. Maupassant par lui-même (Le Seuil, 1962).
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In 1880 he published what is considered his first masterpiece, "
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used Maupassant as the subject for one of his essays on art:
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schools. He wrote and himself played (1875) in a comedy - "
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wrote a short story about Maupassant in his 1971 book,
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they had not yet received official recognition by the
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French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War
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in this respect. One of his famous short stories, "
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Naturalism
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Gustave Flaubert
dénouements
Franco-Prussian War
Boule de Suif

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