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Bel-Ami

Bel-Ami

Author: 
Guy de Maupassant; Margaret Mauldon; Robert Lethbridge
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His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre

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-siecle 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 behaviour 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.

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About the author: 

Margaret Mauldon has previously translated Zola, L'Assommoir, Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma, Huysmans, Against Nature (winner of the 1999 Scott Moncrieff prize) and Constant, Adolphe for OWC; Robert Lethbridge has edited Zola's L'Assommoir and La Debacle for OWC and has written several books on Maupassant and Zola

Product details

ISBN : 9780199553938

Author: 
Guy de Maupassant; Margaret Mauldon; Robert Lethbridge
Pages
368 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 195 mm
Pub date
Sep 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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