Guy de Maupassant

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories

Übersetzer: Miles, Sian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Include thirty-three tales that focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. This title explores the dualistic nature of the human character and reveals nobility, civility and generosity, vanity, greed, and hypocrisy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780140448122
• ISBN-10: 0140448128
• Artikelnr.: 21001790

Autorenporträt

Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) was a literary disciple of Flaubert and one of the group of young Naturalistic writers that formed around Zola. Maupassant's contribution to the Naturalists collaborative collection of tales, Les Soirées de Medan, was 'Boule de suif', which remains one of the most well-known of the hundreds of stories he wrote over the course of his life and on which his literary reputation now rests. He also wrote six novels, including Bel-Ami (1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888). Sian Miles was born in Wales and educated there and in France where she lived for many years. She now teaches at Warwick University and is the author of an anthology of the writings of Simone Weil, and translations of George Sand's Marianne, Violet Trefusis's Echo, and has collaborated on Paul Valéry's Cahiers/ Notebooks.