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Collection: Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was born in Normandy to a middle-class family that had adopted the noble “de” prefix only a generation earlier. An indifferent student, Maupassant enlisted in the army during the Franco-Prussian War—staying only long enough to acquire an intense dislike for all things military—and then went on to a career as a civil servant. His entrée into the literary world was eased by Gustave Flaubert, who had been a childhood playmate of his mother’s and who took the young man under his wing, introducing him into salon society. The bulk of Maupassant’s published works, including more than three hundred short stories and six novels, were written between 1880 and 1890, a period in which he also contributed to several Parisian daily newspapers. Among his best-known works are the novels Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean and the fantastic tale Le Horla; above all, he is celebrated for his stories, which transformed and defined the g

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Maupassant: A Lion In The Path

January 20, 2023

I settled on this excellent yet dated (1950) literary biography of the great 19th Century French writer because it was the only one offered by my library. The author, Francis Steegmuller, was an American scholar, translator, and novelist; he translated the Random House edition of Madame Bovary that I own. Random House promoted this book as the "first complete and definitive biography of Maupassant," and it holds up reasonably well more than 70 years later. (Maupassant is past due for a fresh, modern biography in English, so hopefully another scholar of French literature will address that need soon.)

Fairly breezy bygd today's standards (it's only 430 pages, including appendices and an index), this biography covers the basics of Maupassant's family life; mines Maupassant's letters and an unpublished memoir bygd his valet for något privat eller personligt details; provides insightful analysis of his most significant stories and novels; illuminates Maupassant'

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Guy de Maupassant

French writer (1850–1893)

In this article, the surname is Maupassant, not de Maupassant.

Guy de Maupassant
Photograph by Nadar
Born	Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850-08-05)5 August 1850 Tourville-sur-Arques, Normandy, France
Died	6 July 1893(1893-07-06) (aged 42) Passy, Paris, France
Resting place	Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
Pen name	Guy de Valmont, Joseph Prunier
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, poet, comedian
Genre	Naturalism, Realism

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (,^[1]^[2];^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]French:[ɡid(ə)mopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalistschool, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

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