| 单词 | Maupassant |
| 例句 | He read the letter as another student in the class did irreparable damage to the French language and a short story by de Maupassant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, to Gogol Ganguli’s relief, they take turns reading aloud from “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Much of Maupassant reads like indecent confidences, whether of concierges or bankers, society women or farmers’ daughters, lent the double illumination of philosophical insight and personal experience. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The writer in question is Guy de Maupassant, who’s second only to Shakespeare in his inspiration of great movies. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z I suppose Mrs. Wharton knows her Maupassant thoroughly; but unless I am quite at fault, it was not in the early seventies, but in the early eighties, that his tales began to appear. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The narrator – both more clever and more stupid than the reader – thinks it an elaborate online game around Maupassant's "The Horla", his correspondent's attempt to do a Lovecraftian "Weird Tale". Something Like Happy by John Burnside - review 2013-01-19T09:30:01Z An earlier version of this article misstated the title of a film that was based on a novel by Guy de Maupassant. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In the final episode, a detail is revealed that rivals de Maupassant in its painful thematic irony. “S-Town” Investigates the Human Mystery 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z At the time of the production, Maupassant’s work was still under copyright, and the movie’s producer, Anatole Dauman, purchased adaptation rights to those stories from the publisher and the Maupassant estate. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Such tales are full of innocence betrayed and beauty poisoned, but Maupassant was ahead of his time in observing that beauty and innocence could be male commodities as well as female. Pick of the week: Robert Pattinson plays a real monster 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z Adaptations of Maupassant’s stories are in the front rank of directorial artistry—and their theoretical implications are even greater than their achievements. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z He also gives him de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” and a horrifying Shirley Jackson story about vengeful townsfolk. “S-Town” Investigates the Human Mystery 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z In general, the stories in “Ashenden” fall into two types: Some show the influence of Maupassant and end with an unexpected shock, while others seem like almost Chekhovian portraits of human frailty and misery. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Less than two blocks from Hemingway's table, what was left of Charles Baudelaire and Guy de Maupassant lay beneath stone memorials in the Montparnasse cemetery. Ernest Hemingway and the highs and lows of Paris 2012-05-17T10:19:37Z The novel, inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace,” is a love-triangle comedy of manners told in Crosley’s signature irreverent style. Sloane Crosley on book trailers, book clubs and her new novel, ‘The Clasp’ 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Who are your literary heroes?I've had many: Gogol, Beckett, Maupassant, Heinrich von Kleist, Kafka, Mark Twain, all the Roths I can think of but especially Joseph Roth, and of course Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z Photograph: Time Life Pictures/Getty Images "He is a better writer than you think," Malcolm Lowry once said of Guy de Maupassant. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z While all this squalor is as unmistakable as a septic wound waved under our noses, there are darker, deeper currents moving within Maupassant's work. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z Of course, while it's safe to say that all works of dictator literature are to some extent fictional, few tyrants have tackled the art of Chekhov and Maupassant. Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z Then I started discovering more about Guy de Maupassant, who was a total character. Essayist Sloane Crosley reveals the literary bad man who inspired her first novel 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Maupassant brings it out from behind the curtain with a brazenness that spans café-table ribaldry and biological tragedy, whispered refinements and violent obsessions. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z As for Turgenev: He could count Tolstoy, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Henry James — not your usual fanboys — among the most fervent admirers of his urbane and melancholy fiction. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Guy de Maupassant, a 19th-century writer, declared it to be “the last of our unreasonable customs”. Men at arms 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Smith’s new volume of Maupassant lives up to its subtitle, “Maupassant for Modern Times.” The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z And is not Guy de Maupassant out of place in the early seventies? Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But while the frame may be Joyce's, the story's ironic twist is closer to the method of Maupassant or O Henry. Where Have You Been? by Joseph O'Connor – review 2012-10-05T21:55:03Z The irony, however, is that Maupassant's best works are much longer. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z The bleakness of "Boule de Suif" is typical of Maupassant, who considered life "brutal, incoherent, disjointed, full of inexplicable, illogical and contradictory disasters". A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z Maupassant’s passions converge from both ends of creative inspiration. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z I had assumed, ignorantly, that I didn’t have to read him, such was Zola’s reputation as an artist inferior to Flaubert and Maupassant. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z If there’s one thing that Ford got from Maupassant, it’s sex; and so there’s a direct line from Maupassant to Ford to Welles’s first film, the linchpin of cinematic youth and modernity. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z One of my first ideas was to read “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, alongside “Mr. Know-All” by W. Somerset Maugham. Works of Fiction That Are Best Read Together 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z This comment, made to David Markson, indicates the conundrum Maupassant presents to readers. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z I love Normandy, only two hours from Paris — a land of great authors, such as Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. Read Your Way Through Paris 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z She sent us an anecdote – in fact it is a short story to rival Maupassant or Hemingway in its power and brevity of expression. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z "M Maupassant is reverting to the animal", his doctor wrote a few days before his death, aged 42. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z Clearly we will not be discussing the work of Guy de Maupassant over a fine bordeaux, even though he is seven years older and two inches shorter than me. What I’m really thinking: the 60-plus dater 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The great realist writers of the 19th century — Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Maupassant, Zola and Dostoyevsky — made the subject central to modern literature. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Jostling with news and faits divers, these stories were by necessity laconic and attention-grabbing, and Maupassant, whose severe economy was a model for Hemingway, had a great facility for producing them. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z Is that a reference at the end to the author Maupassant's decision to eat every day in the restaurant on the Eiffel Tower so he wouldn't have to see it? Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z I especially like Maupassant’s “A Woman’s Life,” an almost perfect novel. Read Your Way Through Paris 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Maupassant’s stories are so cinematically fruitful because their loose ends invite adaptation and render even methodically faithful adaptations overtly interpretive. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. Hemingway the Museumgoer at the Met 2011-09-15T22:52:42Z In Maupassant's famous short story "The Necklace", it is all her worldly prospects. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z It's certainly difficult to find much meaning in Maupassant's final years, which were as lurid as any plot he ever concocted. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z Browsing the comments below, I see that someone mentioned Maupassant's short stories, and I second that. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z Regardless of the inaccuracies that surround his reputation, Maupassant's influence is in reality so diffuse that there are few short-story writers of the past century who aren't in some way indebted to him. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z It shouldn't be doubted that Maupassant is one of the most important short-story writers to have lived. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z A collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov and another one by Maupassant. Leila Slimani: By the Book 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z "The Deer-Larder" features an aging, ill narrator who receives emails seemingly unintended for him, from a man writing a biography of Maupassant. Something Like Happy by John Burnside - review 2013-01-19T09:30:01Z Besides rereading Marcel Proust, he’s recently read Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Sentimental Education,” George Eliot’s novel “Middlemarch” and stories by Guy de Maupassant. David Hockney in lockdown: How the artist found his perpetual spring in a horrible year 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z There he quoted briefly from Guy de Maupassant’s short story “La Femme de Paul,” translated in this case as “Femme Fatale.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This comic showed arrogant disdain for certain professions 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z A doctor, an artist and a madam appear in vignettes from stories by Guy de Maupassant. Movies on TV this week: Feb. 23 — 29: 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Once, they had ventured into “The Necklace,” by Maupassant, and at a rehearsal Bella had watched with abhorrence the boy who was playing her insignificant husband kick open an imaginary door. “A Small Flame” 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The French writer Guy de Maupassant so loathed the Eiffel Tower that he frequently lunched in its restaurant because there he could not see the tower. Opinion | An administration official with a Rubik’s Cube to solve 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Maupassant, she says, made “a very strong statement. It takes a certain courage to practically insult critics and the public.” A brush with art: Anka Muhlstein on Zola, Proust and the painters they knew best 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z I would like to point out that Maupassant’s view of La Grenouillière was more complicated than seeing it as a “cesspool of sex and vice.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This comic showed arrogant disdain for certain professions 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Guy de Maupassant wrote enthusiastically about hunting too. How France is falling out of love with hunting - BBC News 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “I have always been inspired by great short story writers, the first being the French writer Guy de Maupassant,” he says. Disco's Saturday Night Fiction 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z As Guy de Maupassant said of the Eiffel Tower, being inside the Orbit is the best place to be – because it’s the only place you don’t have to look at it. Into Orbit: my dizzying drop down the world's biggest slide 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “In the 19th century there was this sort of common subject and interests that linked writers and painters so intimately,” she says, parrying Maupassant. A brush with art: Anka Muhlstein on Zola, Proust and the painters they knew best 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z And just as boating on the Seine near Paris was an important subject during the first decades of Impressionism, activity on the river features heavily in Maupassant’s work. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This comic showed arrogant disdain for certain professions 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z But the same pain also transformed Manto into a short story writer whose work can be mentioned in the same breath as Chekhov, Gogol and Maupassant. Best holiday reads 2015 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Afterward, during several years of frenzied creativity, he became an author worthy of comparison with Chekhov, Zola, and Maupassant—all of whom he translated and adopted as models. The Mutual Genocide of Indian Partition 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Its contents spilled out: thousands of paperback copies of The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant. (Back) Gates to Asia 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It's this essential ambivalence we all feel about the urban landscape - that its sordidness and its beauty are somehow inseparable - that unites me with De Maupassant across both the Channel and the years. Staring at the Shard 2013-01-18T18:13:13Z Maupassant, after all, was an avid boater himself. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This comic showed arrogant disdain for certain professions 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z French artists and writers, including Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, inveighed against this “giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack.” Letter From Europe: Architecture as a Mirror 2012-07-16T10:00:34Z That boy Maupassant had more stuff in him than a wilderness of Zolas, Goncourts, and the rest. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Anatole France is one of the most brilliant literary men in the world, and stands foremost amongst giants like Daudet, Zola, and Maupassant. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z De Maupassant may have dined upright in the Eiffel Tower gazing down over Paris, while I'm supine in London staring up at the Shard. Staring at the Shard 2013-01-18T18:13:13Z But Maeterlinck met Mallarmé personally during his stay in Paris; in short, various influences worked upon him to turn him from Heredia's and Maupassant's manner to that of Mallarmé's disciples. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z I think if the reader will study the short stories of Guy de Maupassant and Mr Frederic Wedmore, and digest the advice given above, he will know enough to begin his work. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z The volume of tales entitled Dubliners reveals a wider range, a practised technical hand, and a gift for etching character that may be compared with De Maupassant's. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z These two books opened the path to Naturalism, to the "human document," to the de Goncourts, to de Maupassant, and to Zola. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z He made the valued acquaintance of Ivan Turgenev, and through him of the group which surrounded Gustave Flaubert—Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Zola and others. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z A little in Bret Harte’s manner, crossed, perhaps, with that of Guy de Maupassant.” Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z What could be stronger than the language of Guy de Maupassant? How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z But James Joyce, potentially a poet, and a realist of the De Maupassant breed, envisages Dublin and the Dubliners with a cruel scrutinising gaze. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This doctrine found parallel literary expression in the writings of the de Goncourts, de Maupassant and Zola. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Have enjoyed some good reading, and have read one book, 'Bel Ami,' by Guy de Maupassant, which I found so objectionable that I had to skip whole passages of mere sensual description. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z As in passing I caught sight of the large, prone figure in the bed, I thought of Guy de Maupassant's "Toine," who acted as an incubator. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z His short narratives are as skilful as Maupassant's in at least one respect, compression, sinewy economy. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z And he wrote the most unmoral short story in the English language, one that also sets the spine trilling because of its supernatural element as never did Poe, or De Maupassant. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z De Maupassant had put it better but Lamb could not quite recall the quotation.... Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z The method is very different from the method of such writers as de Maupassant. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z How completely the whole significance of the works of Guy de Maupassant would change had he included here and there some women who combined virtue with personal charm! Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The essays on books are unpretentious notes—eight pages on Henry James, seven on Maupassant, twelve on Anatole France, short excursions in criticism made between the longer voyages to the islands of the blessed. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z To lend poignancy to this mild epigram Mr. Hueffer misquotes it, substituting the name of De Maupassant for Turgenev's. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Mr. Gosse had asked for further details with regard to Maupassant's tale, referred to in the previous letter. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z De Maupassant's analysis and dissecting is usually done with cold and relentless indifference; Miss Lynn's processes are here carried out determinedly, but with full and lingering sympathy. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Mary, after taking plenty of time for reflexion, and without any solicitation, deliberately gives herself to her lover, in a manner exactly similar to a scene in Maupassant's novel, Notre Cœur. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z When we get back on land to another of Conrad's masters, Guy de Maupassant, I feel less shaky. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z There is a story of Maupassant's, which illustrates how a man who is not a coward may literally die of fright, by dwelling upon fear. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z I have just finished De Maupassant's "Notre Cœur," and I am not surprised that we found it impossible to get hold of the French edition in America. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z De Maupassant would have enchanted him—but not the coarse translations on vile paper—or Rousseau's or Cellini's open secrets. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Whatever the responsibilities of Father Maupassant may have been, he must have had a sinecure in comparison with the king's confessor. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z I suppose that a Frenchman gets somewhat the same shiver of delight from fine rhythms in Maupassant's prose that we get from fine rhythms in Conrad. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Do you know whom that is due to?—Maupassant. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z What was that she was saying about De Maupassant? Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z But my young author's experiment with De Maupassant was not successful. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z De Maupassant does not give any details of the girl, nothing of her character, not even her name. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z He frequently reminds us that he is a Slav who learned French along with his native tongue, that he has read Flaubert and Maupassant and Henry James. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Maupassant by his greatness has so raised the standard of writing that it is very hard to write; but we have to write, especially we Russians, and in writing one must be courageous. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z It is wonderful to be in the midst of cultured people, to be able in casual afternoon calls to discuss De Maupassant with one lady and Gothic architecture with another. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z By a happy afterthought he took with him into retirement a volume of De Maupassant. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z A sketch of a few pages of Maupassant's is worth all the volumes put together of Georges Ohnet; one of the Sonnets of Proteus is worth the whole swagger of the Seven Seas. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z In a certain sense, he was of the school of Flaubert, Gautier, Maupassant, Loti, and Zola, but with such differences and variations that these teachers may not take much credit or flattery to themselves. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z He loved literature passionately, and to talk of writers and to praise Maupassant, Flaubert, or Tolstoy was a great joy to him. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Maupassant went insane because he would work and he would play the same day. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Bierce can make us accept as valid and tragic events more odd than the one de Maupassant had to reject. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Maupassant, Mr. Tate said, was the great master of the short story. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z They were not there with his masters, Flaubert, Gautier, Maupassant, and others, and so these men will not inherit literary immortality. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Even so aggressive a person as that turbulent and pyrotechnic Frenchman, Guy de Maupassant, attacks criticism in a way which should be a lesson to Mr. Roe's least generous critics. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z It was Turgenev who introduced him to Flaubert, from whom he passed to Guy de Maupassant, then an athlete of four-and-twenty, and still scintillating in that blaze of juvenile virility which always fascinated Henry James. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Flaubert’s correspondence with George Sand was published in 1884 with an introduction by Guy de Maupassant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z She took up a volume of Maupassant, but a degree of mental restlessness to which she was entirely unaccustomed tormented her, and she laid the book aside. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z We were far more interested in Russian literature — Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Chekhov and Tolstoy — and European literature — Balzac, Hugo, Maupassant and Dickens — than in Arab literature. Op-Ed Contributor: Finally, Turkey Looks East 2011-02-23T05:48:02Z Without any kind of preconception or theory M. Maupassant says: 'A critic should understand, distinguish, and explain the most opposite tendencies, the most contrary temperaments, and admit the most adverse researches of art.' E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z It is, however, Maupassant's view about the novel as he expounded it in his preface to Pierre and Jean. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z If I had the pen of a Zola and the imagination of a Maupassant, I might properly impress the medical world with a sense of its responsibility in this matter. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z In addition, he has indulged in verse-making and written a number of short stories somewhat in the manner of De Maupassant. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z He had never been able to see in it anything but a subject for a humorous paper; Guy de Maupassant would have done wonders with it. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Maupassant was to follow him, while thinking that he followed Flaubert, in this rigorous art of cutting your coat to your cloth. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z The same story is told of him on the French coast, only there it was Guy de Maupassant who brought him back in safety. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z The gift of terse narration joined to great simplicity of language is found in French writers like Flaubert and Maupassant, but it is new to Germany. The Wish A Novel Her selections of reading, however, were destined to intensify her restlessness, for in the pages of Daudet, Bourget and de Maupassant she found the anomalies of human weakness painted in brilliant and exculpatory colors. With Edge Tools His translations from Gautier, Maupassant, "Stray Leaves from Strange Literature," all appeared in the columns of Page Baker's newspaper. Lafcadio Hearn The new naturalist school, which has produced such singular work in prose fiction, is represented in poetry by M. Richepin and M. Guy de Maupassant. A Short History of French Literature Yet it was Maupassant who died mad, not Swinburne. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z This resistance voiced its fury in a flood of special newspaper editions, petitions, and manifestos signed by such lights of the fine and literary arts as De Maupassant, Gounod, Dumas fils, and others. Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 He sent for some more dreadful French books, Gyp's, and Richepin's, and Gui de Maupassant's, and he lies about reading them all day long when he isn't asleep. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June The French type of short story in general, and Maupassant's work in particular, are often cited to illustrate the need for compression. The Technique of Fiction Writing And these exquisite miniatures were set in the frame of a lucid, pregnant, virile style, not unworthy of Maupassant or Kjelland. St. Peter's Umbrella It was reserved for Maupassant to make St. Michael get the better of Satan on earth as in heaven. Devil Stories An Anthology His subjects are often much the same as those of de Maupassant. Their Son; The Necklace The right-hand shelves were wholly French, from quaint volumes of troubadours' poetry to Alfred de Musset and De Maupassant. A Monk of Cruta Moreover, I cannot admit that Maupassant's best work is equal in rounded artistry and appeal to that of others who have chosen to write less barely and mathematically. The Technique of Fiction Writing "Black Masks" is the study of a pathological case which Andreyev has dramatized after the fashion of de Maupassant's "The Horla." Contemporary Russian Novelists I stretched myself on my sofa and opened Maupassant: "Monsieur," I read. Aliens Paul Bourget relates that when he told Maupassant of this epigram, he calmly replied: "Better a bull than an ox." Ivory Apes and Peacocks Guy de Maupassant, in his valuable preface to "Pierre et Jean," has spoken very wisely on this point. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews Thus Maupassant, in "The Necklace," does not attempt to make the story an unbroken chronological progression. The Technique of Fiction Writing He has some relation with Guy de Maupassant as a close analyst of modern types of character, but he has more humour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" I determined to abandon the Carville problem for an hour or two after breakfast in favour of Maupassant. Aliens Maupassant was paid one franc a line for his novels in the periodicals, and 500 francs for the newspaper rights of publication only; good prices twenty-five years ago in Paris. Ivory Apes and Peacocks In the chapter on emphasis, we have already called attention to Guy de Maupassant's device of periodic structure, by means of which the solution of the story is withheld till the concluding sentences. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews He wanted, on the contrary, to know Mabel’s feelings towards the coming Maupassant of North London. An Ocean Tramp Poe and de Maupassant would not have made this mistake; and neither would Mr. Kipling after he had grown into mastery of artistic method. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Had Maupassant given me the key of the whole enigma? Aliens Maupassant was even for these days of swollen figures a big "seller." Ivory Apes and Peacocks See also Shilling Net Library for another volume of Maupassant. Amaryllis at the Fair Let me give you the estimate of woman which Maupassant, in Moonlight, has placed in the mouth of a priest. The Truth About Woman Guy de Maupassant, in his valuable preface to “Pierre et Jean,” has spoken very wisely on this point. A Manual of the Art of Fiction They talked as though Rousseau and Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac and Flaubert, Maupassant and all the rest were still vital dazzling news to the world, because these men were still molding the world. The Harbor Hearn seldom pinned down to the paper his dreams, though he had a gift of suggestion, of spiritual overtones, in a key of transcendentalism, that, in certain pages, far outshines Loti or Maupassant. Ivory Apes and Peacocks There is nothing of this in Guy de Maupassant, nor in Zola. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study “We recognise,” the critics wrote, “Maupassant’s verve and Heine’s wit;” Some even made a verbal note Of Shakespeare being out of it. The Battle of the Bays In the chapter on emphasis, we have already called attention to Guy de Maupassant’s device of periodic structure, by means of which the solution of the story is withheld till the concluding sentences. A Manual of the Art of Fiction That French prof had introduced me to Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Maupassant and others who were becoming my new idols. The Harbor He found Maupassant "deficient in the moral sense"; yet he was interested and followed the progress of Flaubert's pupil. Ivory Apes and Peacocks In his novels and romances, Guy de Maupassant has given perhaps the finest and most true descriptions which exist of the psychology of love and the sexual appetite. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Choate's mind leaped at once to the jewels in Maupassant's story, and Madame Beattie's quick disclaimer when he ventured to hint the necklace might be paste. The Prisoner In order to place before the pupils good models for constructing stories, read one like “A Piece of String” in “An Odd Number,” by Maupassant. English: Composition and Literature Yes," I said to myself, outside, "De Maupassant knew women. The Harbor He wrote this in an article entitled Guy de Maupassant and the Art of Fiction. Ivory Apes and Peacocks But the French author who has given the most profound, the truest descriptions of the psychology of love and the sexual appetite is undoubtedly Guy de Maupassant. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Maupassant does not flatter his fellow-subjects of the great Duchy, but he loves them, and knows them, and delights to talk of them—talking always well and often at his best. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Madame Bovary is the masterpiece of naturalistic romance and has not been surpassed by the studies of Zola or the stories of De Maupassant. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life I thought of De Maupassant and the rest, and the two years I had spent in trying to make vivid and real the life I had seen. The Harbor The thing that surprises a close student of this episode and its outcome is that Maupassant was in reality so unlike his master. Ivory Apes and Peacocks In de Maupassant's "Une Vie," he describes with profound insight the continuous deceptions of a young innocent and sentimental girl who marries an egoistic roué, and whose life is transformed into martyrdom and completely ruined. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study But Maupassant's materialism and his pessimism combined shut out from him vast parts and regions of life and thought and feeling, as it were with the blank wall of his very earliest poem. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century I do not mean that the prevailing temper in the village was sordid, bitter, cruel, like that, say, of the Norman peasantry in De Maupassant's short stories. Change in the Village A further instalment of Marie Bashkirtseff literature was published in the shape of letters between her and Guy de Maupassant, with whom she started a correspondence under a feigned name and without revealing her identity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Maupassant was a great talent, and a growing one when disease cut him down. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Guy de Maupassant has described this contrast in a most striking manner in his romance entitled "Une Vie." The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Guy de Maupassant is never greater than when appealing to the primitive link of tragic affiliation that binds us to all living flesh and blood. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Meanwhile he was ‘gorging’ on English and French literature, his chief idols being the brothers de Goncourt, de Maupassant, and Turgenev, and he got a story into the Yellow Book. When Winter Comes to Main Street And yet his work is utterly unlike Flaubert, probably unlike what Flaubert had hoped for—the old man died in 1881 and therefore did not live to enjoy Maupassant in full bloom. Ivory Apes and Peacocks De Maupassant's romances contain such true psychology of sexual life and love in all their forms, often even in their exceptional aberrations, that they furnish an admirable illustration to the present chapter. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Maupassant's just protest against this, to which we shall come. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century One is inclined to feel that those who miss the tragic generosity at the heart of the brutality of Guy de Maupassant, are not really aware of the bitter cry of this mad planet. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Strindberg, Weininger, Maupassant, Jules de Goncourt, knew too much about sex, and they all went mad, although it is usual to disguise the fact in the less familiar terms of medical science. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study It is this precise style that Maupassant exhibits but coupled with a clarity, an ease, and a grace that Mérimée could not boast. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Guy de Maupassant is remarkable as a writer for his abundant introduction of references to agreeable and mysterious perfumes, and also to repulsive odours. More Science From an Easy Chair One of these, his early contemporary, Charles de Bernard, and another, who only became known after his death, Guy de Maupassant, are to be treated in other chapters here. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Thus much one can see quite clearly from reading de Maupassant, Flaubert's pupil, whose stark and savage strokes of clean-cut visualisation never attain the imaginative atmosphere or Rabelaisian aplomb of Balzac's rural scenes. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations There they saw "Mademoiselle Fifi," a playlet lasting less than half an hour, adapted by the late Oscar Metenier from Guy de Maupassant's short story. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Of Flaubert's harmonious and imaginatively coloured manner, Maupassant shows no trace in his six novels and his two hundred and odd tales. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Yet this fellow Crane has written short stories equal to some of Maupassant’s. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays But I can hardly conceive anything less like Balzac's work than Maupassant's. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Words are resounding blows and smacking kisses to Guy de Maupassant. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Daughter allowed a rose-colored Booklet, by Guy de Maupassant, to sink among the Folds of her French Gown, and then she Looked at him, and said: "All Goods must be delivered at the Rear." Fables in Slang All of which is interesting, but proves nothing except that Maupassant wrote a marvellous collection of short stories, real, hyphenated short-stories, as Mr. Brander Matthews makes the delicate distinction, while Huysmans did not. Ivory Apes and Peacocks He rivalled Gautier, Flaubert and de Maupassant before they were born. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Certainly no one can ever have shown to better advantage in company than M. de Maupassant did on this occasion. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Without any doubt Guy de Maupassant is the greatest realist that ever lived. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations If the roses and the lilies suddenly sang on this coming morning; if the furniture began to move in procession, as in De Maupassant's tale!' The House of Souls Would Maupassant have reached the sunlit heights, as Tolstoy believed? Ivory Apes and Peacocks Maupassant, Meredith, Henry James, Mr. Howells and Tolstoy, were all learning their expression at an age where Crane had achieved his and achieved it triumphantly.” A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays But as for the works of the young men, other than M. de Maupassant, they had the Naturalist faults in fullest measure, unredeemed by their master's massive vigour and his desperate intensity. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century But Guy de Maupassant plunges into the thickets, gun in hand, and we soon hear the howl of the hunted. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations A town that in art can show the names of Poussin, Jouvenet, and Géricault; and in letters, Gustave Flaubert, Maupassant, and Hector Malot, has not been left too far behind by older memories. The Story of Rouen If it did not sound quite heretical I should be tempted to assert that the writer Maupassant most patterned after, was Prosper Mérimée, an artist detested by Flaubert because of his hard style. Ivory Apes and Peacocks I was Maupassant mad at the time, a malady particularly unattractive in a Junior, and I made a frantic effort to get an expression of opinion from him on “Le Bonheur.” A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays But beyond the wall there is a whole universe which Maupassant does not merely neglect, but of which he seems to be blankly ignorant and unconscious, except in flashes of ignorant disdain. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century It is absurd to rail at de Maupassant because of his "brutality." Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations That farmers afford particularly easy prey for book-agents and are the largest purchasers of cheap sets of Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling and O. Henry. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind Edmond de Goncourt, jealous of the success of the newcomer, wrote in his diary that Maupassant was an admirable conteur, but a great writer, never. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Well, it would not seriously hurt the art of the classic author of “Puddin’ Head Wilson” to study Daudet, De Maupassant, Hugo and George Sand, whatever it might do to his morals. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays For the question is whether this insensibility to large parts of life has not injured Maupassant's treatment of the parts in which he did feel an interest. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century To read for the first time, one of the short stories of Guy de Maupassant is to receive a staggering enlargement of one's ideas as to what mere literature can do. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Is it not worthy of a Poe or a Maupassant? The Flaw in the Sapphire The father of Guy was Gustave de Maupassant, of an ancient Lorraine family. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Soon after writing this he began to read the short stories of Guy de Maupassant. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day It is purposely rather more minute than anything else in these later chapters, and was not the easiest part of the book to do, owing to the large number of Maupassant's short stories. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century As one reads Guy de Maupassant one breathes heavily as if it were oneself and not another upon whom the tension and the sweat of the crisis has come. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations But Maupassant did not use sexual incidents for the sake of sex feeling; for him such incidents were various symbols, flickering images, of life, incarnations of the brooding spirit of cynicism and scorn. Personality in Literature There was a younger brother, Hervé de Maupassant, who died of a mental disorder. Ivory Apes and Peacocks And then Guy de Maupassant’s dreadful “Solitude” came to her memory. The Daughters of Danaus The numerous and complicated causes of this weakness, or, if any one prefers to call them so, the numerous and complicated causes of this enjoyment, had no hold whatever on Maupassant. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The scope and sweep of a great creative imagination is given to few among us, and Guy de Maupassant was not one of these. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Upon feelings of this sort Maupassant based some of his most felicitous stories. Personality in Literature July 6, 1893, Maupassant died, as a lamp is extinguished for lack of oil. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The great merit of M. de Maupassant as a writer is his frank and masculine directness. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories So great and so fertile a writer as Maupassant leaves us—except in his supernaturalisms—nothing at all that goes out of the actual probable or easily possible experience of a Frenchman of 1880-90. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The great imaginative writers have the soul of man always under their hand, and Guy de Maupassant has the body of man always under his hand. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Maupassant wrote for men of the world, and men of the world are content with the wisdom of their counting-houses. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories Monsieur Maynial does not tell of the black butterflies, the truth of which I can vouch for, as I heard the story from Lassalle, the French barytone, a friend of Maupassant's. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It is the best of M. de Maupassant's novels, mainly because M. de Maupassant has never before been so clever. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories As for the character of Maupassant's "illusions," there could never be much doubt about some of them. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The question of the legitimacy in art of the kind of realism which Guy de Maupassant practised, goes incalculably deep. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations A story of Maupassant, more than almost anything in the world, gives you the impression of manual dexterity. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories Madame Laure de Maupassant made inquiries about the patriotic little sinner so as to help her. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It was not until he had won a very great reputation as a short story-teller, that De Maupassant attempted a long novel. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories Maupassant's own selection of novels, to illustrate the impossibility of defining a novel, is of the first interest. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century But suppose instead of the soothing cadences of this harmless volume, you had just perused a short story of Guy de Maupassant; would not your feelings be different? Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Maupassant's was a simple one, sufficient for his needs as he understood them, though perhaps really consequent upon his artistic methods, rather than at the root of them. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories He, like Baudelaire, Flaubert, and De Maupassant, was summoned before the bar of justice for outraging public morals by the publication of his play, The Box of Pandora, the sequel to Erdgeist. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Here, surrounded by the relics of his warlike and courtly ancestors, Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on the 5th of August, 1850. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories Yet it is not in these stories of doubt and dread, or in the ostensible and rather shallow philosophisings of the travel-books, that Maupassant's pessimism is most obvious. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century In the deadly knocks of a Guy de Maupassant they get their "quietus" from the height, so to speak, of the saddle of a sporting gentleman. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Among these masterpieces are the novels and short stories of Guy de Maupassant. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories The introspection of these men, as of de Maupassant and kindred spirits, appeals to a like characteristic of the Brazilians. Brazilian Tales It was in 1880 that De Maupassant was suddenly made famous by two published volumes. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories The impropriety of M. de Maupassant's subjects, the "cruelty," the "brutality," the "pessimism," and what not, of his handling, were sure to be denounced or defended, as the case may be. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Guy de Maupassant visualises human life as a thing completely and helplessly in the grip of animal appetites and instincts. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations To Maupassant this cynical point of view was invaluable for his purpose. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories It is reported in some volume of French literary memoirs that Guy de Maupassant regarded the first series of "The Odd Number" as better than the original. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The early poems of De Maupassant like those of Paul Bourget, are not without sterling merit as poetry, but their main interest is that they reflect the characteristics of their author's mind. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories Now, the question is, whether Maupassant and some of Maupassant's admirers are not somewhat in this case? A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Perhaps it is in regard to what this word tragic implies that we find the difference between the brutality of Guy de Maupassant and the coarseness of the earlier English writers. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Maupassant was the man of his period, and his period was that of Naturalism. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories Do you remember that passage in Guy de Maupassant where the husband said just that to his wife? The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book It is unnecessary to recount here the names of even the chief of De Maupassant's stories. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories So, again, in reference to the apologies for Maupassant's pessimism. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century That is the whole point of de Maupassant's achievement. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Properly speaking, Maupassant is no more a realist than Maeterlinck. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories When man, in the Epicurean spirit, embraces feeling, he makes himself a martyr to it—like Maupassant or Oscar Wilde. Fantasia of the Unconscious He was from Provence as Maupassant was from Normandy; and Daudet had the Southern expansiveness and abundance, just as Maupassant had the Northern reserve and caution. The Nabob, Volume 1 The Naturalist rank and file are so far below Zola and Maupassant that they cannot now, whatever they might have done twenty years ago, claim much notice in such a history as this. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He never or very rarely deals, as Balzac and de Maupassant and Hardy do, with the farmers and farm labourers on the land. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Compare, for instance, the admirable story "Boule de Suif," perhaps the best story which Maupassant ever wrote, with a story of somewhat similar motive—Bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker Flat." The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories An ardent admirer of the author of the stories in The Odd Number has protested to me that M. Coppée is not an etcher like M. de Maupassant, but rather a painter in water-colors. Ten Tales He could never take the rigorously impassive attitude which Flaubert taught Maupassant to assume. The Nabob, Volume 1 As always with Maupassant, it is out of the bitter that comes the sweet. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century In reading Guy de Maupassant, it does not seem to be words at all which touch us. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Let us examine a few of the contrasts in Maupassant, for he is a great adept in their use. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric They have qualities of their own; they have sympathy, poetry, and a power of suggesting pictures not exceeded, I think, by xivthose of either M. de Maupassant or M. Daudet. Ten Tales De Maupassant wrote a prose that is full of the technique of the Japanese prints; that works chiefly through means of sharp little lines and dainty spotting. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Here also, as elsewhere, Maupassant—satirist of women as he is—makes her lover a very inferior creature to herself. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century So it is with Balzac, and so it is, in their different ways, with such writers as Stendhal and Maupassant, or again as Dickens and Meredith; they all create a "world of their own." The Craft of Fiction "No; de Maupassant," shouted Mansell, adding, in an undertone: "I saw one of his books in a shop in Villiers Street, looked pretty hot stuff." The Loom of Youth The school of realism of which Zola, Tolstoi, De Maupassant, and others of that ilk are followers, claims its descent from the author of Salammbo. Violets and Other Tales I have no hesitation in stating after careful thought that Miss Mansfield's first book of short stories at once places her in the great European tradition on a par with Chekhov and De Maupassant. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story But this passage, trifling as it may seem to some readers, appeared to me worth preserving, because my recent very careful reperusal of Maupassant, as a whole, made its appositeness constantly recur to me. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century In Maupassant's drama we are close to the facts, against them and amongst them. The Craft of Fiction Guy de Maupassant, in the passage already partly quoted, shows that the modern sailor can still personify. Nature Mysticism And in the Solferino Garden he paid his tribute of flowers at the monuments of Maupassant and Flaubert. Visionaries Another company released a picture that was simply Maupassant's "The Necklace" so carelessly re-dressed that we wonder the editor did not recognize it after reading the first paragraph of the synopsis. Writing the Photoplay It is perhaps partly because, in spite of that inoffensiveness, it fixes on one a grasp superior to anything of Beyle's and equal to anything of Flaubert's or Maupassant's. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Maupassant, for a good example, in many of his stories. The Craft of Fiction Forain, with the pencil of a realism truly Japanese, illustrates with sympathetic incisiveness the pitiless pessimism of Flaubert, Goncourt, and Maupassant as well. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture "You have Pater!" he exclaimed; "and isn't that a volume of De Maupassant's?" The Survivor Maupassant was a Norman, and he had never given a thought to the glorifying of God. Inquiries and Opinions Of the verse enough for our purpose has been or will be said, though I should like to repeat that I put it much higher than do most of Maupassant's admirers. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Both, it is true, represent a picture that was in the author's mind; but the story passes into Thackeray's book as a picture still, and passes into Maupassant's as something else—I call it drama. The Craft of Fiction De Maupassant was himself a millionth man, a Master. The Art of Public Speaking To read them, after even the finest stories of de Maupassant or Murray Gilchrist, is like having a bath after a ball. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 On this first appearance in the arena of letters Maupassant stept at once to a foremost place. Inquiries and Opinions Further, no less a critic than my friend Mr. Traill entered, long ago, a protest against the admission of Maupassant's pessimism as a drawback. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century There seems to be no particular process at work in his mind, so little that the figure of Maupassant, the showman, is overlooked and forgotten as we follow the direction of his eyes. The Craft of Fiction Even in the Cardinal sketches there is nothing that leaves an acrid after-taste, nothing corroding—as there is not seldom in the stronger and sterner short stories of Maupassant. Parisian Points of View The only reason advanced has been that Guy du Maupassant wrote very good short stories, and he was French! Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 But Maupassant went far beyond the earlier poet, and he even developed a fondness for the morbid and the abnormal. Inquiries and Opinions It was entitled Des Vers, and the author of it was a certain Guy de Maupassant, of whom I then knew nothing. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He was in leash to the French school of which de Maupassant was the outstanding luminary, only I did not know it at the time. Twelve Men In seven years, he has written thirty, contained in three volumes, which in their expressive brevity sometimes recall Maupassant. Twenty-six and One and Other Stories He said aloud in a ballroom that Guy de Maupassant was the greatest novelist that ever lived. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Technic can be acquired; and Maupassant had studied at the feet of that master technician Flaubert. Inquiries and Opinions Pierre et Jean itself has no weakness except that narrowing of interest which has been already noted in Maupassant, and which is rather a limitation than a positive fault. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Like his idol, de Maupassant, he had no moral or strong social prejudices, no really great or disturbing imagination, no wealth of perplexing ideas. Twelve Men To find any parallel to this lurid little story, one must go to Dostoieffski or to Guy de Maupassant. Reviews The worldwide appreciation of Rodin had its origin in Germany—we esteem Anatole France, Maupassant, Flaubert, Balzac, as if they were German authors. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Imagination may be stimulated by constant endeavor to a higher achievement; and Maupassant's ambitions were ever tending upward. Inquiries and Opinions The story, like all Maupassant's stories, is of the simplest. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Maupassant never tells where his sympathies lie, and you don't know; you only guess. Best Russian Short Stories My dear, read Maupassant! one page of his gives you more than all the riches of the earth! The Party Here are the characters of Flaubert and Maupassant as we should wish them to be. Since Cézanne We see Maupassant etching the canny and cautious Normans, while Daudet brushed in broadly the expansive exuberance of the Provençals. Inquiries and Opinions It illustrates another side of Maupassant's pessimism—the overtly, but for the most part quietly, tragic. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century And yet Chekhov is as objective as Maupassant. Best Russian Short Stories In both Daudet and Maupassant—Strong as Death is the latter's contribution to painter-psychology—there are stories clustered about the guild. Promenades of an Impressionist Guy de Maupassant's short stories remain, with those of Henry James and Joseph Conrad, the very best of their kind. One Hundred Best Books At Flaubert's dictation Maupassant gave up verse for prose; and for seven years he wrote incessantly and published nothing. Inquiries and Opinions When Maupassant took Sorrow into cohabitation and collaboration, there was no danger of the result. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Critics, among them Tolstoy, have often compared Chekhov to Maupassant. Best Russian Short Stories His leaping, audacious line is like the narrative prose of a Maupassant or a Joseph Conrad. Promenades of an Impressionist And when we come to consider the great technicians, Guy de Maupassant and Flaubert, can we say that their technique will save them, or atone in the slightest degree for the defects of their minds? The Author's Craft From being transfixt by such a jibe Maupassant was preserved by Flaubert. Inquiries and Opinions Mont-Oriol, though not, save in one respect, the most "arresting" of Maupassant's books, has rather more varied and at the same time coherent interest than some others. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Maupassant holds a supreme position as a short-story writer; so does Chekhov. Best Russian Short Stories The alert expression of the girls, who appear to be loitering, tells us more at a glance than a chapter of Flaubert, Zola, or De Maupassant. Promenades of an Impressionist Nobody, now, despite all his brilliant excellences, would dream of putting de Maupassant with the first magnitudes. The Author's Craft It must be admitted at once that many of Maupassant's earlier short-stories have to do with the lower aspects of man's merely animal activity. Inquiries and Opinions A glimpse like that of Hardy's mind separates him at once from Maupassant's view of the world. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Maupassant and Stevenson and Hawthorne and Poe are the great names in the ranks of short-story writers. Short-Stories Now there's De Maupassant's Fort comma la Mort—quite the most interesting variation—shows the turn a genius can give. Murder in Any Degree Where else could we find the realism which would replace that of Stendhal and Balzac, Flaubert and Maupassant? Landmarks in French Literature Maupassant had an abundance of what the French themselves called "Gallic salt." Inquiries and Opinions Nor do we find in any of these sketches of outcasts that sense of humanity bruised and exiled that we get in such a story as Maupassant's Boule de Suif. Old and New Masters Boccaccio was not conscious of a standard in short-story telling, for he had none in the sense that Poe and Maupassant defined and practiced it. Short-Stories SEE The collected novels and stories of Guy de Maupassant. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 January - June It is not "Realism", it is not "Romance", any more than Jane Eyre: and if any other master's method, De Maupassant's or Turgeniev's, is to be the test, it will not stand it. The Three Brontës In matters of taste, as we Anglo-Saxons regard them, Maupassant was a man without prejudices. Inquiries and Opinions When you come down here I shall tell you tales that will make Balzac and De Maupassant look tame. A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 Immediately after the publication of his first story Maupassant was hailed as a finished master artist. Short-Stories SEE The collected novels and stories of Guy de Maupassant. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 January - June He says that some of the contes printed every day in the Journal are worthy of Maupassant. Ballads of a Bohemian The most of Maupassant's earlier tales were not a little hard and stern and unsympathetic; and here again Maupassant was the disciple of Flaubert. Inquiries and Opinions M. Guy de Maupassant, with his keen mordant irony and his hard vivid style, strips life of the few poor rags that still cover her, and shows us foul sore and festering wound. Intentions Maupassant was a natural artist deeply in love with the technique of his work. Short-Stories SEE The collected novels and stories of Guy de Maupassant. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 January - June Just as it is impossible to comprehend the Rome of the Caesars without the work of Petronius, so is it impossible to fully comprehend the France of 1850-90 without these stories of Maupassant. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant But in time the mind came to interest Maupassant as much as the body. Inquiries and Opinions If any ordinary man ever said that he was horrified by the subjects discussed in Ibsen or Maupassant, or by the plain language in which they are spoken of, that ordinary man was lying. Heretics When thirteen years of age Maupassant attended the seminary at Yvetot, where he found school life irksome and a most distasteful contrast to his former free life. Short-Stories SEE The collected novels and stories of Guy de Maupassant. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 January - June If Maupassant had only painted, in general fashion, the characters and the phase of literature mentioned he would not be distinguished from other writers of the group called "naturalists." Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant There is more than one of these later tales in which we seem to perceive the premonition of the madness which came upon Maupassant before his death. Inquiries and Opinions He had begun by an inoculation of the Kipling virus, had suffered an almost fatal attack of Harding Davis, and had even been affected by Maupassant. Blix For seven years Maupassant served this severe task-master, always writing, receiving criticisms, and publishing nothing. Short-Stories This season a play was produced of which the first act was taken from Guy de Maupassant, the second and third “adapted” from Sardou, with episodes introduced from other authors to brighten the mixture. Worldly Ways and Byways It is enough that the critics of to-day place Guy de Maupassant among our classic writers. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Thirdly, there is the underlying and informing imagination which invents and relates and sustains; and there is no disputing the vigor of Maupassant's imagination, altho it was not lofty and altho it lacked variety. Inquiries and Opinions Hayward had talked of Maupassant, and his reputation was not unknown to Philip. Of Human Bondage Maupassant's short-stories are generally conceded to be the best in French literature. Short-Stories It was perhaps lucky that Mr. Sutcliffe had gone abroad early this year; for he had begun to follow her through Balzac and Flaubert and Maupassant, since when he had sometimes interfered with her selection. Mary Olivier: a Life Maupassant's phrasing, however dramatic it may be, remains easy and flowing. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Observation can be trained; and Maupassant had deliberately developed his power of vision. Inquiries and Opinions Maupassant came near to it in his own time. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Maupassant was a keen observer, possessed an excellent but not lofty imagination, and never asserted a philosophy of life. Short-Stories In the sitting-room of his apartments in the Boulevard Maupassant he sat in his dressing-gown, carefully studying some letters which had arrived by the night mail. The Mischief Maker Many and various have been the judgments passed upon Maupassant's work. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant continued the production of his marvellous short stories. Tales from Bohemia To the French, especially to Flaubert and Maupassant, must be given the credit of so perfecting the novel's technique that it has become the great means of cosmopolitan culture. The Jew and Other Stories In fact, I have often thought that if the story of Dora were told in concise prose, in the manner of Guy de Maupassant, it would distinctly gain in force. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century In the untidy salon of his bachelor apartments in the Boulevard Maupassant Estermen awaited the coming of his master in veritable fear and trembling. The Mischief Maker The philosophy of the romances and novels of De Maupassant is so continuously and profoundly surprising that one becomes overwhelmed by it. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant To-day, men coupled his name with those of Kipling and De Maupassant. The Call of the Cumberlands I have been studying some of the French novelists—some of Maupassant yesterday. The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow The same train of thought is not met with again until we come down to our own time, and Maupassant himself does not present it with greater vigor in Sur l'eau. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Frankenstein, de Maupassant's “Horla,” all the fantastic literary monsters of the past faded to tawdry, childish bogeys beside the actual observations of Stern, the engineer, the man of science and cold fact. Darkness and Dawn The school of romantic realism which was founded by Merimee and Balzac found its culmination in De Maupassant. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant It was nearing twilight, and he had laid aside a volume of De Maupassant, whose simple power had beguiled him. The Call of the Cumberlands Maupassant knew them fairly well, and one thinks of that story of his:— "Le parfum de Monsieur?" Alone For applause and fame Maupassant cared nothing, and his proud contempt for Orders and Academies is well known. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Maupassant did perfectly what he wanted to do, but his greatness and his limitation are both revealed. Short Stories Old and New It has been said by casual critics that Maupassant lacked one quality indispensable to the production of truly artistic work, viz: an absolutely normal, that is, moral, point of view. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Scenes are enacted the febrile fancy of a Poe or a de Maupassant never could have conjured. The Glands Regulating Personality One could picture her in a de Maupassant farmyard. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories This nobler personality Maupassant owes to those sufferings dear to great souls of whom Daudet speaks. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Maupassant shows in his stories that he is interested not so much in the free play or the full reaction of personality as in the enslavement of personality through passion or chance. Short Stories Old and New Some of Maupassant's short stories are sermons more forcible than any moral dissertation could ever be. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant To the infant there is precious little difference between his own toes, his father's watch, the lamp on the table, the moon in the sky, and a nice bright yellow edition of Guy de Maupassant. Public Opinion The dead have their day in France, but it was not le jour des morts when I bethought myself of visiting the grave of Maupassant. Without Prejudice But Maupassant's stories are singularly different in character. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories He resembles Guy de Maupassant merely in the fact that, like the Frenchman, he wrote short stories. Essays on Russian Novelists Of De Maupassant's sustained efforts "Une Vie" may bear the palm. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant These examples show how difficult it might be to secure a sound public opinion about de Maupassant among babies, or about Democrats in the Union League Club. Public Opinion No beads, no tawdry images, nothing but the dignity of death, nothing but "Guy de Maupassant, 6 Juillet, '93," on the cross, and "Guy de Maupassant, 1850-93," at the foot. Without Prejudice In his pessimism, Maupassant despises the race, society, civilization and the world.... Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Gogol's realism differs in two important aspects from the realism of the French school, whether represented by Balzac, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, or Zola. Essays on Russian Novelists Maupassant was essentially a worshiper of the eternal feminine. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant It was like a picture from one of De Maupassant's tales. A Traveller in War-Time I sneaked back to the grave of Maupassant, but I had barely achieved a single Reflection, when "Holà, holà!" resounded in loud tones from afar. Without Prejudice And yet Maupassant adores this nature, the one thing that moves him.... Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Among native authors, Tolstoi was first, closely followed by Gorki; among foreign writers, Guy de Maupassant was the most popular! Essays on Russian Novelists We now see the consequences which were inevitable by reason of them, endowed as Maupassant was with a double power of feeling life bitterly, and at the same time with so much of animal force. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant I cannot write the name of Maupassant without recalling what was either a spiritual interposition or an extraordinary coincidence in my own life. Through the Magic Door Finally as a supreme reason, I had the example and the challenge of Guy de Maupassant's "Une Vie." The Old Wives' Tale Repetitions, assonances, do not always shock Maupassant, who is sometimes insensible to quantity as he is to harmony. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories The constant reading of Maupassant by boys and girls of fifteen and sixteen years, already emancipated from the domination of religious ideas, can hardly be morally hygienic. Essays on Russian Novelists Maupassant, on the other hand, if he suffered from a nervous lesion, gave no sign of it, except in his heart. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Having nothing to read I happened to buy a volume of Maupassant's Tales which I had never seen before. Through the Magic Door Constance was the original; Sophia was created out of bravado, just to indicate that I declined to consider Guy de Maupassant as the last forerunner of the deluge. The Old Wives' Tale Such appears to me to be Maupassant, the novelist, a story-teller, a writer, and a philosopher by turns. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Turgenev had the temperament of a poet, just the opposite temperament from such men of genius as Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. Essays on Russian Novelists Of the French writers of romance of the latter part of the nineteenth century no one made a reputation as quickly as did Guy de Maupassant. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Everything that I imagined was there, save that Maupassant had brought in a savage hound. Through the Magic Door It spoke of elegant extravagance, and seemed oddly out of place in an Arctic miner's equipment, as did also a small set of De Maupassant. The Spoilers To identify Maupassant with his characters is a gross error, but is not without precedent. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories I am become like Guy de Maupassant’s old man who picked up a piece of string. Revolution, and Other Essays I leave the legendary side, which is always in evidence in the case of a celebrated man,—that gossip, for example, which avers that Maupassant was a high liver and a worldling. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant When Maupassant chose he could run Poe close in that domain of the strange and weird which the American had made so entirely his own. Through the Magic Door And again we are at the de Maupassant crux. Chopin : the Man and His Music Why did Maupassant at the start win universal favor? Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories A notable example of such an attitude to war is to be found in the celebrated French writer Guy de Maupassant. The Kingdom of God Is Within You And yet with all his vividness of description, De Maupassant is always sober and brief. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant There is no need to call the de Goncourts and Guy de Maupassant imitators because they bear a strong stamp of Balzac's influence. Balzac He quotes therewith De Maupassant on Flaubert: "Among all the expressions in the world, all forms and turns of expression, there is but ONE—one form, one mode—to express what I want to say." The Psychology of Beauty Maupassant was always impatient to "realize" his observations. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Consequently his mind was in a whirl of icebergs, Maupassant, and trichinosis. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million Maupassant always sought for large and harmonious rhythm in his deliberate choice of terms, always chose sound, wholesome language, with a constant care for technical beauty. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant His picture of peasant avarice has been repeated by later writers, Guy de Maupassant and Zola. Balzac Readers acquainted with the Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this selection. Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Guy de Maupassant Very industrious and very careful at first, Maupassant, in the fever of production, became less careful. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories In "A Ladies' Man:" by Guy de Maupassant, we read:— Page 62.—And the conversation, descending from elevated theories concerning love, strayed into the flowery garden of polished blackguardism. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 Closely allied to this phase of Maupassant's nature was the peculiar feeling of loneliness that every now and then breaks irresistibly forth in the course of some short story. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant has said that of all the arts architecture is perhaps the most aesthetic, the most mysterious, and the most nourished by ideas. The Spell of Egypt She told me her story, and word for word, if I could have written it down then, it would have read like a little novel by Guy de Maupassant. Now It Can Be Told A classic, Maupassant undoubtedly is, as the critic to whom I alluded has said, "through the simple aptness of his terms and his contempt for frivolous ornamentation." Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories There is here more than a hint of the art of Guy de Maupassant. Washington Square Plays Salient points in De Maupassant's genius were that he possessed the rare faculty of holding direct communion with his gifts, and of writing from their dictation as it was interpreted by his senses. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant I never saw, in the flesh, either De Maupassant or Tchekov—those masters of such different methods entirely devoid of didacticism—but their work leaves on me a strangely potent sense of personality. Villa Rubein, and other stories Guy de Maupassant would have given just such an ending to his story. Now It Can Be Told Maupassant's philosophy is as little complicated as his vision of humanity. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories He preferred Flaubert to de Maupassant, and Turgenieff to Tolstoy; but Gorky was the best of the Russian boiling. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The paradox of his constitution permitted to Maupassant this seemingly impossible accord, aided as he was by an intellect whose influence was all powerful upon his development—the writer I mention above, Gustave Flaubert. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant It filled him with horror and awkwardness, made him think of he didn't know what, recalled something of Maupassant's— the smitten "Miss Harriet" and her tragic fate. Some Short Stories [by Henry James] Intellectual Germany had to take refuge in the literature of other countries, in the works of Ibsen, Zola, Daudet, Maupassant, and especially in the great works of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgeniev. Anarchism and Other Essays In any case, Maupassant's pessimism becomes logical in terminating in pity, like that of Schopenhauer. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant and Rudyard Kipling brought up the rear, and dazzled the world. The Education of Henry Adams Merimee, whom I have also named, received from Stendhal, at twenty, the same benefits that Maupassant received from Flaubert. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Were I a novelist, a Maupassant, or a Meredith, the Muse, “from whatsoever quarter she chose,” would enlighten me about all, and I would enlighten you. Adventures Among Books This note, from one of the English damsels whom M. Guy de Maupassant dislikes so much, is written in such French as the lady could muster. Old Friends, Epistolary Parody But this sensitiveness that Maupassant seeks to hide, is plain to all clear-seeing people. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Quite possibly there were unmentionable volumes among them—de Maupassant, perhaps Boccaccio. The Confession It is not exact to say that the lofty genius of De Maupassant was that of an absolutely sane man. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Not long ago, for example, I heard an anecdote out of which M. Guy de Maupassant could have made the most ghastly, the most squalid, and the most supernaturally moving of all his contes. Adventures Among Books I—not exactly I myself, but rather that impersonal je familiar to me through Maupassant—was to be sitting at that table, with a bock before me, just as I had sat. And Even Now Mme. de Maupassant, who had guided her son's early reading, and had gazed with him at the sublime spectacle of nature, put off as long as possible the hour of separation. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Anne was reading De Maupassant under cover of a table, and the rest pretended not to hear. When a Man Marries The skilled and dainty pessimism of De Maupassant was accompanied by a vigor and physique very unusual. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Every third person in M. Guy de Maupassant’s tales has a “de,” and is a Marquis or a Vicomte. Essays in Little Or it may be that she was bent on saving M. de Maupassant from a dangerous rivalry. And Even Now "Sur l'Eau" is the last Will and Testament, the general confession of Maupassant. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories His ideas regarding French literature; of Maupassant; of Balzac. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 Maupassant could have dispensed with the instructions of Flaubert. Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir Mr. Bret Harte is limited to the conte; M. Guy de Maupassant is probably at his best in it. Essays in Little I was determined to make a story of what I had seen—a conte in the manner of great Guy de Maupassant. And Even Now Maupassant retired to Cannes not far from his mother. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories As to French literature, he thought Maupassant the man of greatest talent, by far, in recent days, but that he was depraved and centered all his fiction in women. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 To introduce Maupassant to English readers with apologetic explanations as though his art were recondite and the tendency of his work immoral would be a gratuitous impertinence. Notes on Life and Letters And so with Maupassant, who, pen in hand, is the character he describes, with his passions, his hatreds, his vices and his virtues. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories This agrees admirably with the theory of impassivity in literature, so much in vogue when Maupassant became known. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories With an inborn perception, Maupassant at once seizes on the principal detail, the essential peculiarity that distinguishes a character and builds round it. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Study closely these minstrels in recent works; read M. Joseph Bédier's beautiful work, Les Fabliaux, and you will see how, in Maupassant's prose, ancestors, whom he doubtless never knew, are brought to life. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories This is not to say that Maupassant’s austerity has never faltered; but the fact remains that no tempting demon has ever succeeded in hurling him down from his high, if narrow, pedestal. Notes on Life and Letters If Maupassant draws from anyone it is Schopenhauer and Herbert Spencer, of whom he often speaks, although one does not know if he studied them very deeply. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Maupassant had to bend to the conditions of his new life. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Those whom Flaubert's great organ tones delighted, those whom Theophile Gautier's frescoes enchanted, were not satisfied, and accused Maupassant, somewhat harshly, of not being a "writer" in the highest sense of the term. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Maupassant’s conception of his art is such as one would expect from a practical and resolute mind; but in the consummate simplicity of his technique it ceases to be perceptible. Notes on Life and Letters Here it is where Maupassant’s austerity comes in. Notes on Life and Letters We are at liberty then to quarrel with Maupassant’s attitude towards our world in which, like the rest of us, he has that share which his senses are able to give him. Notes on Life and Letters And in Maupassant’s work there is the interest of curiosity and the moral of a point of view consistently preserved and never obtruded for the end of personal gratification. Notes on Life and Letters But Maupassant never let himself be carried away by the tinsel of his prestige, nor the puerility of his enchantment. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Now, Maupassant, of whom it has been said that he is the master of the mot juste, has never been a dealer in words. Notes on Life and Letters Maupassant’s renown is universal, but his popularity is restricted. Notes on Life and Letters Maupassant’s philosophy of life is more temperamental than rational. Notes on Life and Letters Maupassant was a true and dutiful lover of our earth. Notes on Life and Letters If Maupassant never became the slave of worldly ideas, the creature of instinct that was part of his being acquired the refined tastes of the salons, and the manners of the highest civilization. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories |
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