by Guy de Maupassant · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420609157
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«Bel Ami» is the classic novel by Guy de Maupassant published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Georges Duroy, a former non-commissioned officer who arrives in Paris from Algeria, makes his way in journalism and high society at the end of the 19th century with charm, glibness and unscrupulous ambition. He seduces those who ease his rise and does not hesitate to destroy anyone who stands in his way.
Translation by Esther Benítez Eiroa. Part of the 13/20 collection. The novel was originally published in 1885 under the title «Bel-Ami».
Readers of classic novels and students of 19th-century French fiction will find here a portrait of social ascent in the Paris of the era.
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
