by Guy de Maupassant · J'ai lu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290335253
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«Boule de suif et autres nouvelles» is the collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, published by J'ai lu in paperback (96 pages, in French).
Stories set in nineteenth-century France that lay bare bourgeois hypocrisy and social selfishness. In the title story, bourgeois travelers flee the Franco-Prussian War in a stagecoach and test their treatment of a generous companion. The volume also includes a cursed jewel, a cross-dressing murderer, jealous husbands, a missing son and art lovers, viewed with mordant irony.
The title story was originally published in 1880. This French edition is part of the Librio collection and includes the complete text.
For those who enjoy nineteenth-century realist short fiction or seek classic reads in French.
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.
