Guy de Maupassant

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I'm reading Pierre et Jean, in English, and loving it. Which of his should I pick up next?

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Find a nice comprehensive edition of the stories. There are even single volume complete story collections (they are massive though). You can't go wrong there.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

If you haven't already, check out "The Horla," written, I believe, in the throes of syphyllitic delirium. Crazy stuff.

― otto, Saturday, 27 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah The Horla is cool. Maupassant spent the last 18 months of his life in a lunatic asylum, during which period he wrote it.

― Fred, Saturday, 27 March 2004 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

'Boule de Suif' is a must-read. BTW, he's always been considered a huge influence on Mauagham.

― Michael White (Hereward), Sunday, 28 March 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Guy De Maupassant died of a sexually-transmitted infection resulting from his obsession with a prostitue. I believe it might have been (excuse my attempt at the spelling) Syphilis? He was not, at least to my knowledge anyway, ever comitted to an Asylum of any kind although he did apparantly suffer from a mental conflict of some kind but only after he contacted the disease. Delrious behaviour was a definite symptom of the disease

― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

After a suicide attempt in 1891 (he tried to cut his throat), he spent the last 18 months of his life in a Paris mental home (the celebrated private asylum of Dr. Espirit Blanche).
I found it here -> http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-bio/bl-gdemaupassant.htm

― Fred, Friday, 9 April 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

revive. any fans here? really enjoyed boule de suif. getting through a nice collection of his other stuff. lovely style, great observations, laconically shared.

― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 19:11 (twelve years ago)

I read Pierre et Jean a few weeks ago: not bad. His short stories have a delicious after taste/

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 19:14 (twelve years ago)

is that a ref to my appraisal sounding like something from a bottle of wine?

― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 19:19 (twelve years ago)

i was gonna read one a week for old time's sake and the i forgot to.

de Maupassant One-A-Week

― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 01:59 (twelve years ago)

my kinda guy:

"When he drank, his great beard, which matched the color of his favorite beverage, seemed to tremble with affection; his eyes positively squinted in the endeavor not to lose sight of the beloved glass, and he looked for all the world as if he were fulfilling the only function for which he was born. He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life—pale ale and revolution—and assuredly he could not taste the one without dreaming of the other."

― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:20 (4 months ago) Permalink

haha, amazing, the minute i read this bit i took a note of it and sent it to my friend.

― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 08:35 (twelve years ago)

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