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Contes divers 1875 - 1880

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contes divers

237 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2017

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Guy de Maupassant

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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.

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25 reviews1 follower
September 19, 2020
Cette livre cette une collection de contes, neuf pour être précis, et c’est pour ça que lui donner un rating devient une tâche difficile.

Six contes sont très courts, moins de dix pages chacun. À mon avis, le plus intéressante entre ces six c’est « Une page d’histoire inédite ». Il raconte l’histoire d’un jeune Napoléon Bonaparte à Corsa, lorsque le général Paoli a déclaré son indépendance à 1755, et les circonstances qui ont été nécessaires pour le rendre de nouveaux en France, vivant.
Les autres trois contes sont plus longs, environ entre 30 et 50 pages chacun. Le premier, c’est « Le Docteur Héraclius Gloss C’est l’histoire d’un vieil homme, Héraclius, dans sa recherche sur les secrets de l’univers qui le rendent face à face avec la métempsycose. Le conte, à mes yeux, est un peu ennuyeuse, il a des moments qui essaye d’être amusant mais la plupart des temps ils ont échoué de me faire rire.

Le second, « Les Dimanches d’un bourgeois de Paris » a un titre très descriptif parce que c’est juste ça, une sorte de collection de petites aventures dominicaux d’un bourgeois Parisienne. Les aventures sont plutôt individuelles sans avoir beaucoup de connexions entre eux. Quelques aventures m’ont produit léger gloussements. À la fin il y a une discussion sur le rôle de la femme dans la société qui m’a permis de connaitre que ’est-ce que la société pense sur le sujet à la fin de 19eme siècle.
Le dernier, et le mieux sans doute, c’est « Boule de suif ». Je préfère de ne dire rien sur cette conte pour éviter des spoilers.
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48 reviews3 followers
March 15, 2023
A set of Maupassant's earliest efforts, and they really are a mixed bag in every way. Most of the pieces here are quite short and pleasant with a couple of stand-outs among them ("Jadis" in particular is really great as a kind of imagined pre-Revolutionary response to the romanticism of the era) which leaves the three longer stories. "Dimanches d'un bourgeois" is quite aimless in its episodic plot and never seems to find an interesting mode in which to settle other than hapless japes and farcery that I didn't manage to find particularly funny. "Doctor Heraclius Gloss" is worse still, outright obnoxious and tedious enough that it took me several days to get through it only to find the pay-off to be completely unworthy of the hassle - little wonder it didn't see publication within Maupassant's lifetime. That leaves "Boule de Suif", one of Maupassant's best-known stories and with good reason as it's a small masterpiece that easily trumps anything else in this collection, a clinical and acutely observed attack on French society and the class system at the end of the Second Empire and the festering corruption that allowed for its defeat by the Prussians. The tragedy that those who are most patriotic and most given to self-sacrifice in service of their country are the most spat upon and downtrodden by its rulers remains as true today as it was then.
3,547 reviews46 followers
May 15, 2025
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Opinion publique [Public Opinion] 4.25⭐
Par un soir de printemps [On a Spring Evening] 4.5⭐
Histoire d'un chien [Story of a Dog] 5⭐
Histoire corse [Corsican History] 5⭐
Épaves [Wrecks] 5⭐
32 reviews1 follower
July 13, 2015
Enjoyable, though sometimes a little challenging.
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691 reviews
August 13, 2016
Bien
De belles petites nouvelles avec des sujets divers idéale pour les amateurs d'histoires courtes et pour redonner ou donner le gout de la lecture au jeunes
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