Horla

by Guy de Maupassant

Overview

Guy de Maupassant

Francuski powieściopisarz. Pracował jako urzędnik ministerialny. Pod wpływem Flauberta zaczął pisać nowele. Boule de Suif było pierwszy tytułem, którym zwrócił na siebie uwagę. Znajdował się także pod wpływem Zoli. Jego nowele i powieści miały pesymistyczny wydźwięk. Pod koniec życia zmagał się z chorobą psychiczną.

Ur. 5 sierpnia 1850 w Tourville-sur-Arques
Zm. 6 lipca 1893 w Paryżu
Najważniejsze dzieła: Historia pewnego życia (1883), Bel-Ami (1885), Horla (1887), Mont-Oriol (1887), Piotr i Jan (1888), Jak śmierć silna (1889), Nasze serce (1890)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153421780
Publisher:	Booklassic
Publication date:	08/05/2016
Series:	Horla
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	283 KB
Language:	Polish

About the Author

Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. At 20 he served in the Franco-Prussian War, then studied writing with his mother’s friend Gustav Flaubert (perhaps believing rumors, which persist, that Flaubert was his father). In 1880 he published his first story, “Boule de Suif,” which was hailed as a masterpiece. He quit his civil service job and soon published the collection, La Maison Tellier. He would go on to publish 300 stories and six novels, including Bel-Ami and Pierre et Jean, while living the life of a bon vivant. In the late 1880s, however, he began to show signs of syphilitic mental illness, and in 1891, was institutionalized after a suicide attempt. He died in a mental asylum in 1893.

Charlotte Mandell has won the Modern Language Association Prize in translation. Among other titles she has translated for The Art of the Novella series are Marcel Proust's The Lemoine Affair, Guy de Maupassant's The Horla, and Gustave Flaubert’s A Simple Heart.

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