by Guy de Maupassant · Pocket - educabooks · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266159203
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«Le Horla et autres récits fantastiques» is a collection of fantastic tales by Guy de Maupassant, in paperback, published by Pocket (in French).
The story that gives the volume its title is the diary of a man tormented by fevers, insomnia and nightmares while he senses the presence of an invisible and hostile being. It is accompanied by other fantastic tales, such as «L'Auberge», and realist stories by Maupassant marked by psychological cruelty and social pessimism.
Paperback edition in the Pocket Classiques collection, with a preface by Alain Pozzuoli and complete text.
Aimed at readers of nineteenth-century French classics and psychological horror stories.
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.
