Per Flaubert

by Guy de Maupassant, Mario Picchi (Translator), Maurice Nadeau (Contributor)

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Genres: France

98 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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

[El Convincente · Rating 3 out of 5]

Si uno ya ha leído lo que Javier Marías, Vargas Llosa o James Wood han dicho sobre Flaubert, este libro se queda un poco corto.

[Aleka · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maestro y discípulo, además de grandes amigos, Flaubert y Maupassant encarnan, cada a uno a su manera, lo mejor de las letras francesas. De ahí el valor literario de este pequeño “tratado”, donde el discípulo Maupassant, a quien Flaubert dirigió en sus primeros pasos en la literatura, traza un panegírico del escritor y del hombre, ya fallecido, salpicando el texto de anécdotas y amorosos recuerdos, e incluso, del método de trabajo de Flaubert para componer sus novelas.

Lo mejor es que incluye un compendio de notas recopiladas por el autor de “Madame Bovary” sobre la estupidez humana, citas de libros, o de periódicos, que clasificó en categorías y que arrancan verdaderas carcajadas cuando se leen de seguido. Uno no puede menos que imaginarse al propio Flaubert tronchado de risa en su salón, rodeado de Turguénev, Zola, Goncourt o el mismo De Maupassant.
Julián Rodríguez fue un gran editor y le echamos mucho, pero mucho de menos.