by Guy de Maupassant · Demetra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788871223469
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«Palla di sego e altri racconti» is Guy de Maupassant's collection of short stories, published by Demetra in paperback (64 pages, in Italian).
The title story takes place during the Franco-Prussian War and exposes social hypocrisy through the attitudes of travelers in a stagecoach. The other stories, with Maupassant's realist gaze and irony, portray the human condition.
It belongs to Demetra's Acquarelli collection. The title story was originally published in 1880 under the French title «Boule de suif».
Suitable for readers of French classics and realist short fiction, also within the school context.
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.
