Life

The novel, after which Turgenev called Maupassant "undoubtedly the most talented of all contemporary French writers." Day by day, year by year, the life of the beautiful Jeanne, the daughter of a baron, unfolds before us – the love, happiness of the early years of marriage, the pain of her husband's infidelity, motherhood, widowhood, old age… This genius work in its simplicity captivates the reader with its depth of insight into the female soul, the vividness of a realistic, impassive, and at times merciless author's view on the eternal "burden of human passions."