by Guy de Maupassant · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253005391
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«Le Horla» is Guy de Maupassant's collection of fantastic tales, in a paperback from LGF/Le Livre de Poche (224 pages, in French).
A compilation of short stories written mostly between 1882 and 1887, in which the French author explores anguish, cruelty, madness and fear. The title story presents a narrator tormented by an invisible presence that seems to disrupt his life; other stories portray characters broken by solitude or longing. Depending on the tale, the tone is cynical, sentimental or openly disturbing.
Part of the Ldp Classiques collection (number 840) from Le Livre de Poche, edited by Mariane Bury. The title story was originally published in 1886.
For readers of French classics, fantastic fiction and psychological horror; also suitable as reading for students of 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.
