Name: Bel Ami
SKU: 57895277
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Author: Guy De Maupassant
ISBN: 9781721661756

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Physical Book

Author

Guy De Maupassant

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

158

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.9 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9781721661756

Synopsis "Bel Ami"

Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism. Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.

Guy De Maupassant

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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th century French naturalist writer and poet, renowned as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, which described human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

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