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Bel-Ami / Guy de Maupassant ; Translated by Margaret Mauldon ; with an introduction and notes by Robert Lethbridge.
LIBRA - Special PQ2349 .B313 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Bel-Ami. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--Colonies--Africa--Fiction.
- Paris (France)--History--1870-1940--Fiction.
- France--Politics and government--1870-1940--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- France--Colonies--Africa--Fiction.
- Paris (France)--History--1870-1940--Fiction.
- France--Politics and government--1870-1940--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- lvi, 303 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism. Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist. This new translation is complemented by fullest introduction and notes of any edition currently available.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0192836838
- OCLC:
- 46333914
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