The Happiness of Pierrot

Maupassant, a disillusioned idealist, a cynical involuntary critic, a sad mocker, an insincere bon vivant, a bored workaholic, and a guide to crystal artistic honesty, entered literature when short stories were becoming more popular than novels — in the late... 19th century, during a period of rapid growth of mass media, when the public's clip thinking was already developing, though it had not yet received its name. Maupassant considered himself a student of Flaubert and Turgenev; he was admired by Leo Tolstoy and Chekhov; Isaac Babel consciously imitated him, and André Maurois did so unconsciously; to this day, Maupassant is translated into other languages more than all other French writers. Each of Maupassant's stories is the essence of truth, a transparent crystal, in whose structure we perceive the ugliness and beauty, the uniqueness and universality of man, a being who is cruel, tender, and bewildered, crying from fleeting joy and laughing from unrelenting despair.

Author: МОПАССАН ГИ ДЕ

Printhouse: Azbuka

Series: Alphabet-Classics

Age restrictions: 16+

Year of publication: 2024

ISBN: 9785389245174

Number of pages: 384

Size: 76х100/32 mm

Cover type: Мягкая обложка

Weight: 190 g

ID: 1609632

Maupassant, a disillusioned idealist, a cynical involuntary critic, a sad mocker, an insincere bon vivant, a bored workaholic, and a guide to crystal artistic honesty, entered literature when short stories were becoming more popular than novels — in the late 19th century, during a period of rapid growth of mass media, when the public's clip thinking was already developing, though it had not yet received its name. Maupassant considered himself a student of Flaubert and Turgenev; he was admired by Leo Tolstoy and Chekhov; Isaac Babel consciously imitated him, and André Maurois did so unconsciously; to this day, Maupassant is translated into other languages more than all other French writers. Each of Maupassant's stories is the essence of truth, a transparent crystal, in whose structure we perceive the ugliness and beauty, the uniqueness and universality of man, a being who is cruel, tender, and bewildered, crying from fleeting joy and laughing from unrelenting despair.

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