Contes noirs : La petite Roque et autres nouvelles

by Guy de Maupassant

7 contes:

La petite Roque. --
Misti. --
Fou? --
Berthe. --
Suicides. --
La nuit. --
Rosalie Prudent.

Mass Market Paperback

Published August 17, 2004

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Riccardo Mazzocchio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Breve raccolta di racconti "noirs". Una capacità unica di descrivere il comportamento umano, specie quando preda degli accessi emotivi e in condizione di disagio mentale. Non a caso fu affascinato dalla fiorente disciplina della neuropsichiatria, frequentando a Parigi le lezioni pubbliche sulle neurosi di un suo famoso contemporaneo, tra i fondatori della moderna neurologia: Charcot.
"Notre mémoire est un monde plus parfait que l'univers: elle rend la vie à ce qui n'existe plus!"