A Parisian Affair and Other Stories

ISBN: 9780140448122

出版社: Penguin Classics

出版年: 2004-06-24

页数: 352

定价: GBP 8.99

装帧: Paperback

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Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity of close relationships: between lovers, as in the poignant fantasy A Parisian Affair or the touchingly ironical The Jewels; between siblings, as in At Sea; and between former partners, as in Encounter. They reveal two sides of human nature: its grace and generosity and also, as in Boule de Suif, its greed and hypocrisy. Piquant and varied, Maupassants stories lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty.