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  Guy de Maupassant - MSN Encarta
Soon Maupassant was a member of the naturalist group, and his story “Boule de suif” (“Ball of Fat”) was published in their Les Soirées de Médan (The Parties at Medan, 1880), a collection of stories about the Franco-Prussian War.
Maupassant became an overnight celebrity and soon was surpassed only by Zola as the best-selling author in France.
Thus in “Boule de suif,” a prostitute and the middle-class travelers who accompany her in a coach are caught by invading Prussians.
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  Guy de Maupassant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maupassant was born at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime department.
Until he was thirteen years old Guy lived with his mother at Étretat, in the Villa des Verguies, where between the sea and the luxuriant countryside, he grew very fond of nature and outdoor sports; he went fishing with the fishermen off the coast and spoke Norman with the peasants.
Guy de Maupassant is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris.
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 Biographical Note. Maupassant, Guy de. 1917. Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure and Two Friends. Vol. XIII, Part 5. ...
UY DE the supreme master of the short story as a form of art, was born of a landed family at the Château of Miromesnil in Normandy on August 5, 1850.
It is said that De Maupassant recognized that his verses lacked melody, and he turned definitely to prose, which he had been cultivating for some years under the tutelage of Flaubert.
But as far as man can go in this direction, De Maupassant went; and he left, after his ten years of feverish activity, a mass of short stories, the best of which are unsurpassed for their firmness of outline, economy of means of expression, and exactness of description.
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 Guy de Maupassant
Maupassant took the subjects for his pessimistic stories and novels chiefly from the behavior of the bourgeoisie, the Franco-Prussian War, and the fashionable life of Paris.
Guy de Maupassant was probably born at the Château de Miromesniel, Dieppe.
Maupassant's first novel was UNE VIE (A Woman's Life, 1883), a naturalistic story about the life of a Norman woman, Jeanne de Lamare, whose kindliness is her strength but also a vice.
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 Guy de Maupassant - FREE Guy de Maupassant Biography | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
Guy de Maupassant, 1850-93, French novelist and short-story writer, of an ancient Norman family.
Maupassant's style and treatment of subject resemble those of Flaubert in classic simplicity, clarity, and objective calm.
Maupassant is a modern exemplar of traditional French psychological realism; he portrays his characters as unhappy victims of their greed, desire, or vanity but presents even the most sordid details of their lives without sermonizing.
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 THEMISATHENA.INFO: Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born at Château de Miromesnil near Dieppe, Normandy, and educated in Rouen and Yvetot, likewise in that Northern French region bordering on the Channel and the North Sea.
Yet, Maupassant was not interested in those other women – so little, in fact, that their characterization barely exceeds the level of a superficial sketch; including and in particular the portrayal of the one woman with whom Jeanne's husband is involved in a lasting and profound affair and who claims, nevertheless, to be Jeanne's friend.
Guy de Maupassant died at the age of only 43 years, of an illness which drove him to madness and alcohol abuse and rendered him unable to write during the last three years of his life, thus forcing him to leave only fragments of his last two novels, L'Âme Étrangère and L'Angélus.
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 Guy de Maupassant
Maupassant was educated at Yvetot and at the Rouen lycée.
Des Vers is an extremely interesting experiment, which shows Maupassant to us still hesitating in his choice of a medium; but he recognized that it was not wholly satisfactory, and that its chief deficiency -- the absence of verbal melody -- was fatal.
Maupassant is here no less vivid in realizing his literary men, financiers and frivolous women than in dealing with his favorite peasants, boors and servants, to whom he returned in Toine (1886) and in La Petite roque (1886).
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 Guy de Maupassant. Biography and complete works
Henry-rené-albert-guy De Maupassant, or Guy de Maupassant, author of the naturalistic school, is generally considered to be the greatest French writer of short stories.
Maupassant was probably born at the Chateau de Miromesniel, Dieppe, on August 5, 1850, though this is not certain.
Maupassant's style has been imitated by countless writers, and his influence can be seen on such masters of the short story as W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry.
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 Guy de Maupassant
For nearly ten years, de Maupassant had been an apprentice of French writer Gustave Flaubert, who used to invite him to lunch on Sundays, lecture him on the style of prose, and correct his early work.
Other de Maupassant works are based more on the reality that the author saw around him in his everyday life.
An activist throughout his life, de Maupassant was rarely satisfied when he was not shaking the tree rooted in society.
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 Guy de Maupassant
The French writer Guy de Maupassant grew up in a home dominated by his artistic and ambitious mother; the father dropped into the background early on, and played only a miniscule role in the young boy's development.
De Maupassant loved women passionately, but his interest in them was scarcely idealistic.
The stories of Guy de Maupassant reflect the interior obsessions of the author -- obsessions which underscore his best work: the baseness of men; the superiority of women; and the nobility of prostitutes and the poor.
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 Guy de Maupassant - Biography and Works
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer.
Guy de Maupassant was probably born at the Château de Miromesniel, Dieppe on August 5, 1850.
On January 2, in 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and was committed to the celebrated private asylum of Dr. Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died on July 6, 1893.
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 Remembering Maupassant | Arts and Entertainment | BBC World Service
Guy de Maupassant lived a short but highly productive life and his short stories and novels are still among the most widely read of French literature.
Guy de Maupassant was that rare thing - a writer who was successful in his own time, immensely popular, prosperous and feted by society.
Maupassant did what he was told, but the strain of working by day, writing at night and coping with his mother’s stream of illnesses began to take its toll.
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Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893) was born in Normandy, the son of a wealthy stockbroker.
In 1880 Maupassant caused a sensation with the publication of his story "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat"), a dramatic account of prostitution and bourgeois hypocrisy.
Along with his younger contemporary Anton Chekhov, Maupassant is responsible for technical advances that moved the short story toward an austerity that has marked it ever since.
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Maupassant is indeed focusing on the aspect of the fantastic tale, as described rightly by Tzvetan Todorov : chiefly a dual interpretation tale, natural and supernatural.
For Maupassant, horror is not born in remote castles or gloomy settings.
Maupassant bases - like Lovecraft - all his tales on the risk we are all running to see a pillar of our existence fall and sbe shattered forever : our sanity, always at risk to be destroyed or alienated: certainly his own madness.
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 Guy de Maupassant: French Novelist and Short-story Writer
Guy de Maupassant was an extemely prolific short-story writer, and famous for 'Boule de suif' ('Ball of Fat.'), and greatly influenced by Flaubert.
De Maupassant's studies were interrupted, and aged 20, he became a soldier.
Guy de Maupassant's style is characterized by being simple and direct, sometimes comic and ironical.
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 Guy de Maupassant
His maternal grandfather was Gustave Flaubert's godfather, and Guy de Maupassant became friends with Flaubert, as well as with Émile Zola, sharing their religious skepticism.
If the Marquis de Fumerol, one of the greatest names in France, were to die without the ministrations of religion, it would assuredly be a terrible blow to the nobility in general, and to the Count de Tourneville in particular, and the freethinkers would be triumphant.
Maupassant's mind began to fail in 1891 and, after a suicide attempt, he spent the last eighteen months of his life in an asylum in Paris.
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 Amazon.ca: Bel-ami: Guy de Maupassant: Books
Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893), if "Bel-Ami" is any indication, must rank as one of the best writers in the history of the western world.
But that is the message De Maupassant is trying to convey; that the complete decadence of French society during this time allows the likes of Duroy to succeed, and to succeed with a smile.
Guy De Maupassant is a brilliant writer whose early death robbed the world of a great talent.
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 Guy de Maupassant - Books and Biography
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was probably born at the Chateau de Miromesniel, Dieppe.
Maupassant's first novel was UNE VIE (A Woman's Life, 1883), a naturalistic story about the life of a Norman woman, whose kindliness is her strength but also a vice.
Maupassant's style has been imitated by countless writers and his influence can be seen on such masters of the short story as Anton Chekhov, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry.
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 Guy de Maupassant - World's Greatest Classic Books
A man of arms and a man of letters, Maupassant was a French short-story writer and novelist known for his naturalistic treatment of his subject matter.
Des Vers, a book of poetry published in 1880, made him realize his forte was prose and not verse.
Boule de suif, a short story or conte, was published later that year in the journal Soirées de Médan in 1880.
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 Guy de Maupassant – FREE Guy de Maupassant Information | Encyclopedia.com: Find Guy de Maupassant Research
Maupassant, Guy de (1850–93) French short-story writer and novelist.
"Le Pere Judas," ou la (re)construction laborieuse d'un conte peu convaincant de Guy de Maupassant.
resultat, malgre le travail de Guy de Maupassant, est un conte franchement incroyable...
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 Guy de Maupassant - Wikipedija
Guy de Maupassant kien kittieb Franċiż ta’ l-aħħar tas-seklu XIX, twieled fil-5 t’Awwissu 1850
Guy de Maupassant kien diġa famuż f’ħajtu u l-fama tiegħu baqgħet qawwija sa llum, mġedda minn bosta adattamenti tax-xogħlijiet tiegħu għaċ-ċinema (per eżempju Jean Renoir) u għat-televiżjoni (per eżempju Claude Santelli).
Guy intlaqgħat ukoll mid-dħulija ta’ l-istoriku-filosfu Taine li ltaqa’ f’Aix-les-Bains.
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 Guy de Maupassant: Vendetta - plays
Una tarde, después de una reyerta, Antonio Savarini fue muerto a traición de una puñalada por Nicolás Rovalati, que aquella misma noche huyó a Cerdeña.
La anciana no le dio de comer, y la perra, furiosa, ladraba sin cesar, y así pasó otro día y otra noche; a la mañana siguiente, la Savarini fue a casa de un vecino a rogar que le dieran un costal de paja.
De un salto formidable, el animal alcanzó la garganta del maniquí, y con las patas sobre los hombros se puso a desgarrarlo.
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 Free Essays - Biography Of Guy De Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 at Chateau de Miromesnil in France.
Maupassants education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served as a member of the French army.
Maupassant wrote a collection of short stories that were published with a writers such as Bola, and Huysmans.
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 Une Vie, by Guy de Maupassant
Maupassant, like Flaubert, was a Norman, through his mother, and through his place of birth he belonged to that strange and adventurous race, whose heroic and long voyages on tramp trading ships he liked to recall.
Maupassant himself tells us of those severe initiations in the Rue Murillo, or in the tent at Croisset; he has recalled the implacable didactics of his old master, his tender brutality, the paternal advice of his generous and candid heart.
Maupassant is helpful to all those of his fellows who are tortured by physical suffering, social cruelty and the criminal dangers of life, but he pities them without caring for them, and his kindness makes distinctions.
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