by Guy de Maupassant · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070409358
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«Bel-Ami» is the realist novel by Guy de Maupassant, published by Gallimard in the Folio Classique collection in paperback (438 pages, in French).
Georges Duroy, an attractive and unscrupulous young man, uses his looks and love affairs to climb the ranks in journalism and in the high society of nineteenth-century Paris. Maupassant, who knew that world well, portrays with irony the intrigues of the press, politics and the salons where alliances and infidelities are forged.
The edition includes an introduction and notes by Jean-Louis Bory. The original French translation of the work was first published in 1885.
For readers of French classics interested in social criticism and ambitious characters, especially if they already enjoy the realist novels of Balzac or Flaubert.
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.
