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L'Orient - annoté

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L'Orient est un conte de Maupassant, écrit en 1883 et publié dans Le Gaulois. Il s'agit d'un dialogue entre deux hommes, l'un allongé sur un divan fumant de l'opium, espèce d'initiation à l'Orient, l'autre faisant la conversation et essayant de comprendre la volupté que son ami éprouve dans la drogue ainsi que le désir d'Orient qu'il exprime, l'Orient dont il fait l'éloge comme du rêve qui lui est indispensable pour vivre et d'autres valeurs comme la jouissance, la liberté et la douceur. Peu à peu au cours de cet écrit très bref, le dialogue se change en un monologue qui effleure le poème en prose.Cet édition comprend l'autobiographie de l'auteur.

39 pages, Paperback

First published April 10, 2020

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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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