by Guy de Maupassant · FLAMMARION · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080722614
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«Le Papa de Simon et autres nouvelles» is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, published by Flammarion in paperback (122 pages, in French).
The collected stories show a childhood marked by the harshness of the adult world: the innocence of play clashes with cruelty, jealousy and despair. Maupassant portrays children and adults with a gaze both tender and relentless, in scenes of rural nineteenth-century France.
Published in 2006 in the Étonnants Classiques collection, it is a revised edition with notes and chronology by Nadine Satiat. Complete text in French.
Aimed at secondary school students studying French literature and at readers wishing to discover Maupassant's short stories in their original language.
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.
