Maupassant, (Henry-René-Albert-) Guy de
- Maupassant, (Henry-René-Albert-) Guy de
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born Aug. 5, 1850, Château de Miromesnil?, near Dieppe, France
died July 6, 1893, Paris
French writer of short stories.
His law studies were interrupted by the
Franco-Prussian War; his experience as a volunteer provided him with material for some of his best works. Later, as a civil-service employee, he became a protégé of Gustave Flaubert. He first gained attention with "Boule de Suif" (1880; "Ball of Fat"), probably his finest story. In the next 10 years he published some 300 short stories, six novels, and three travel books. Taken together, his stories present a broad, naturalistic picture of French life from 1870 to 1890. His subjects include war, the Norman peasantry, the bureaucracy, life on the banks of the Seine, the emotional problems of the different classes, and, ominously, hallucination. Maupassant was phenomenally promiscuous, and before he was 25 years old his health was being eroded by syphilis. He attempted suicide in 1892 and was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 42. He is generally considered France's greatest master of the short story.
Guy de Maupassant, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), с 1885.
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