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Alien Hearts

Alien Hearts

de Maupassant, Guy
Howard, Richard
Howard, Richard

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1590172604
ISBN13: 9781590172605
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.28 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a glacially dazzling beauty, wants Mariolle to attend her exclusive salon for artists, composers, writers, and other intellectuals. At first Mariolle keeps his distance, but then he hits on the solution to all his problems: caring for nothing in particular, he will devote himself to being in love; Madame de Burne will be his everything. Soon lover and beloved are equally lost within a hall of mirrors of their common devising.

Richard Howard's new English translation of this complex and brooding novel--the first in more than a hundred years--reveals the final, unexpected flowering of a great French realist's art.

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