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Guy de Maupassant. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant [gi də mopasɑ̃]) (August 5, 1850 – July 6, 1893) was a popular nineteenth-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story and its leading practicioner in France. His war stories taken from the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s denote the futility of war and ...
Guy de Maupassant [gí d mópasán] (5. srpna 1850, Tourville-sur-Arques – 6. července 1893, Paříž) byl francouzský spisovatel 2. poloviny 19. století, spolu s Émilem Zolou a Gustavem Flaubertem představitel literárního realismu a naturalismu. Jeho šest románů a několik povídkových sbírek si zaslouží pozornost díky síle realismu, fantaskním prvkům a pesimismu, ale také díky stylistickému umění.
Maupassant was phenomenally promiscuous, and before he was 25 years old his health was being eroded by syphilis. He attempted suicide in 1892 and was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 42. He is generally considered France’s greatest master of the short story. short story Summary. Short story, brief fictional prose narrative that is ...
A Wikimédia Commons tartalmaz Guy de Maupassant témájú médiaállományokat. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant ( Tourville-sur-Arques (Miromesnil kastély), 1850. augusztus 5. – Passy, 1893. július 6.) népszerű 19. századi francia író. A modern novella egyik atyjaként, a tömör és a lényegre törő stílus mestereként ...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX “I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.” These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the ...
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One by Guy de Maupassant 4.36 avg rating — 1,058 ratings — published 1902 — 12 editions
edit data. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels.
