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Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories

Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories

Coward, David
de Maupassant, Guy

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Historical FiguresLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $8.99

ISBN10: 0198884958
ISBN13: 9780198884958
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 14 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
b'It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.'/b

Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of self-deception. Maupassant's disgust with creation was only equalled by his contempt for human hypocrisy, and in these tales he takes a scalpel to our illusions and cuts to the bone. But his clinical pessimism is redeemed by a sense of the absurd and a warmer compassion for 'humanity bleeding'. Unsentimental but always honest, he persuades us that life is an incomprehensible, cosmic farce.

This translation of twenty tales shows Maupassant at his bitter, bawdy, chilling best. It features some of his grimmest and most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of Olives, and it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the short story. The Little Keg is rich in comic invention, while the disturbing Who Can Tell? draws its power from the strange forces which drove its author into madness.

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