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Title: Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassant, Douglas Parmee ISBN: 0-14-044315-0 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1975 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: right up there with Madame Bovary
Comment: I would never have known that Guy de Maupassant wrote novels along with his great short stories if another amazon reader hadn't turned me on to their existence. This novel, reminiscent of Madame Bovary (a male version, you might say) is terrific. You'll get a great deal of description of Paris in the late 19th century with period details worthy of any great novelist. The plot is typical: poor, rural young man from the outskirts (Rouen) has no money and no position in life, but longs to find fame and fortune. Thanks to his manly wiles (he's a natural ladies' man), he manages to sleep his way to the top. Like Madame Bovary, happiness is never really there no matter how much money and power he attains - the more you get, the more you realize that others will always have more. Still, Monsieur Duroy, even at his most calculating retains somewhat of a sympathetic quality that allows us to relate to him and root for his success. Despite its length, this novel is a fast read. One of my favorites of the year.
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly 'modern' classic
Comment: Maupassant's characters are more real and colourful than those created by any of the other French naturalists. Bel Ami, his first fill length novel, is simply a joy to read. It tells the story a young ex-soldier, fighting for social position and materialism in the rat race of 1870s Paris. This novel could easily be transported to present day and loose nothing of its impact. Scandal, political intrigue and sexual manipulation are described with Maupassant's cutting pessimism, yet beautifully balanced by his black wit and appreciation for the simple joys of life.
Rating: 4
Summary: social climbers
Comment: The novel can make you wonder how the society can be so porous to allow somebody to get from dire poverty to filthy richness. It is important to note that Georges Duroy, unlike Rastignac from Balzac's "Old Goriot", was never torn between good and evil and, unlike Julien Soreille from Stendal's "the Red and the Black" never won women's hearts as a plebeian. Georges Duroy may personify the cynical and corrupt society, however his success would not have been possible without the society, in spite of all its vises, being so sensuous (especially the female part of it).
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Title: Pierre Et Jean (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).) by Guy De Maupassant, Julie Ead, Robert Lethbridge, Guy De Maupassant, Julie Mead ISBN: 019283147X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Ch¿ri and The Last of Ch¿ri by Colette ISBN: 0374528012 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert Baldick ISBN: 0140440860 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1959 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) by Guy De Maupassant, Roger Colet ISBN: 014044243X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: April, 1971 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Masterpiece (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola, Thomas Walton, Roger Pearson ISBN: 0192839632 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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