Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassant
'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siecle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism. Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.
Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant un ecrivain et journaliste litteraire francais ne le 5 aout 1850 au chateau de Miromesnil a Tourville-sur-Arques (Seine-Inferieure) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 a Paris. Lie a Gustave Flaubert et a Emile Zola, de Maupassant a marque la litterature francaise par ses six romans.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192836830 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192836838 |
| Title | Bel-Ami |
| Author | Guy De Maupassant |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2001-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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