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The necklace and other stories : Maupassant for modern times / Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Sandra Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York, NY : Liverlight Publishing Corporation, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 322 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0871403684
  • 9780871403681
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections English
Genre/Form:
Contents:
Tales of French life -- The necklace (La parure) -- My uncle Jules (Mon oncle Jules) -- The protector (Le protecteur) -- The journey (Le voyage) -- Mademoiselle Pearl (Mademoiselle Pearl) -- The umbrella (Le parapluie) -- On horseback (A cheval) -- The baptism (Le baptême) -- In the countryside (Aux champs) -- Adieu (Adieu) -- A day in the country (Une partie de campagne) -- The question of Latin (La question de Latin) -- Tales of war -- Mademoiselle Fifi (Mademoiselle Fifi) -- The madwoman (La folle) -- Lieutentant Laré's marriage (Le mariage du Lieutenant Laré) -- Two friends (Deux amis) -- Père Milon (Le père Milon) -- The adventure of Walter Schnaffs (L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs) -- La mère sauvage (La mère sauvage) -- The prisoners (Les prisonniers) -- A duel (Un duel) -- Boule de suif (Boule de suif) -- Novella -- Tales of the supernatural -- On the water (Sur l'eau) -- Fear (La peur) -- The apparition (L'Apparition) -- The hand (La main) -- Lost at sea (Le noyé) -- Who can know? (Qui sait?) -- A nightmare (La nuit: un cauchemar) -- Le horla (Le horla) -- Novella.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the best-selling translator of Némirovsky's Suite Française comes this bold new translation that reinterprets Guy de Maupassant's best works for a new generation.

A Parisian civil servant turned protégé of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of French literature but also a pioneer of psychological realism and modernism who helped define the form. Credited with influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel, and O. Henry, Maupassant had, at the time of his death at the age of forty-two, written six novels and some three hundred short stories. Yet in English, Maupassant has, curiously, remained unappreciated by modern readers due to outdated translations that render his prose in an archaic, literal style.

In this bold new translation, Sandra Smith--the celebrated translator of Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise --brings us twenty-eight of Maupassant's essential stories and two novellas in lyrical yet accessible language that brings Maupassant into vibrant English. In addition to her sparkling translation, Smith also imposes a structure that captures the full range of Maupassant's work. Dividing the collection into three sections that reflect his predominant themes--nineteenth-century French society, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, and the supernatural--Smith creates "an arrangement suggesting a culture of relation, of structure, of completion" (Richard Howard).

In "Tales of French Life," we see Maupassant explore the broad swath of French society, not just examining the lives of the affluent as was customary for writers in his day. In the title story of the collection, "The Necklace," Maupassant crafts a devastating portrait of misplaced ambition and ruin in the emerging middle class.

The stories in "Tales of War" emerge from Maupassant's own experiences in the devastating Franco-Prussian War and create a portrait of that disastrous conflict that few modern readers have ever encountered. This section features Maupassant's most famous novella, "Boule de Suif."

The last section, "Tales of the Supernatural," delves into the occult and the bizarre. While certain critics may attribute some of these stories and morbid fascination as the product of the author's fevered mind and possible hallucinations induced by late-stage syphilis, they echo the gothic horror of Poe as well as anticipate the eerie fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.

The result takes readers from marriage, family, and the quotidian details of life to the disasters of war and nationalism, then to the gothic and beyond, allowing us to appreciate Maupassant in an idiom that matches our own times. The Necklace and Other Stories enables us to appreciate Maupassant as the progenitor of the modern short story and as a writer vastly ahead of his time.

Translated from the French.

Tales of French life -- The necklace (La parure) -- My uncle Jules (Mon oncle Jules) -- The protector (Le protecteur) -- The journey (Le voyage) -- Mademoiselle Pearl (Mademoiselle Pearl) -- The umbrella (Le parapluie) -- On horseback (A cheval) -- The baptism (Le baptême) -- In the countryside (Aux champs) -- Adieu (Adieu) -- A day in the country (Une partie de campagne) -- The question of Latin (La question de Latin) -- Tales of war -- Mademoiselle Fifi (Mademoiselle Fifi) -- The madwoman (La folle) -- Lieutentant Laré's marriage (Le mariage du Lieutenant Laré) -- Two friends (Deux amis) -- Père Milon (Le père Milon) -- The adventure of Walter Schnaffs (L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs) -- La mère sauvage (La mère sauvage) -- The prisoners (Les prisonniers) -- A duel (Un duel) -- Boule de suif (Boule de suif) -- Novella -- Tales of the supernatural -- On the water (Sur l'eau) -- Fear (La peur) -- The apparition (L'Apparition) -- The hand (La main) -- Lost at sea (Le noyé) -- Who can know? (Qui sait?) -- A nightmare (La nuit: un cauchemar) -- Le horla (Le horla) -- Novella.

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