by Guy de Maupassant · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440719157
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«Bola de sebo y otras narraciones de guerra» is Guy de Maupassant's short story collection, published by Club Internacional del Libro in paperback (191 pages, in Spanish).
Stories set during the Franco-Prussian War with Maupassant's irony and realism. In «Bola de sebo», a prostitute travels by stagecoach with bourgeois and aristocrats fleeing the occupation; her generosity contrasts with their hypocrisy. Includes «Mademoiselle Fifi», «Dos amigos» and «La cama 29».
The volume belongs to the War Novel collection. The original story, Boule de suif, was published in 1880 and this Spanish edition is from 2012.
For readers of 19th-century classics and short fiction with historical background and social criticism.
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.
