by Guy de Maupassant · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070458219
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«La Maison Tellier» is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, published by Gallimard in paperback format (80 pages, in French).
The title story presents a provincial brothel where routine coexists with bourgeois respectability; when it closes for a first communion, the country outing of its women and clients exposes society's double moral standard. Maupassant paints it with irony; the scene of the prostitutes taking communion caused scandal.
The French edition, established by Louis Forestier, appeared in 2014 in the Folio classique collection; the original text was published in 1881.
Suitable for students of French and for those approaching Maupassant in the original version; its brevity makes it apt for school reading.
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.
