by Guy de Maupassant · Espasa-Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467017434
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«Bola de sebo y otros relatos» is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Many of the stories in this volume are set during the Franco-Prussian War and portray society, war, and the human condition with an economical style. Maupassant, one of the masters of the modern short story, closes each tale with effectively resolved endings. The famous 'Bola de sebo', published in 1880, gives the collection its title.
The translation is by Juan Bravo Castillo and the volume belongs to the Austral collection.
For readers of French classics and nineteenth-century short stories, with an interest in brief narrative.
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.
