by Guy de Maupassant · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253009009
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«Bel-Ami» is the novel by Guy de Maupassant published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (365 pages, in French).
Georges Duroy, a young man without fortune, makes his way in nineteenth-century Paris thanks to his charm and the women around him; the daughter of one of his mistresses nicknames him Bel-Ami. Journalism and salon connections propel him toward power in a world of ambition, press, and corruption. A scathing satire of the French high society of the era.
The work was originally published in 1885. This French edition includes a preface by Jacques Laurent and notes and commentaries by Philippe Bonnefis.
For readers interested in French classics and social criticism; it is also common reading in schools.
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.
