Maupassant’s vision was of solid superficies, of texture which his hands could touch, of action which his mind could comprehend from the mere sight of its incidents. —On Maupassant Arthur
Guy de Maupassant 1850–93, French novelist and short-story writer, of an ancient Norman family.… He poured out a prodigious number of short stories, novels, plays, and travel sketches until 1891, when he went mad. He died in a sanitarium. 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.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Biographical Note from Harvard Classics. ) Pronunciation: m from The American Heritage®
WORKS
Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure and Two Friends
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
The Necklace
From Matthews’s the Short-Story
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