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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
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culture · French writer (1850–1893) · short story writer · playwright · journalist · novelist · writer · poet · also Guy de Maupassant, Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Valmont, Joseph Prunier, Maupassant
Born 5 August 1850 · Died 6 July 1893 · Q9327
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I cannot at all conceive in which century of history one could haul together such inquisitive and at the same time delicate psychologists as one can in contemporary Paris: I can name as a sample – for their number is by no means small, ... or to pick out one of the stronger race, a genuine Latin to whom I am particularly attached, Guy de Maupassant.
1980 interview in Conversations with Grace Paley I was exposed to Dickens, Dumas, Victor Hugo, de Maupassant, Balzac. Muriel Rukeyser “The Education of a Poet
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“I cannot at all conceive in which century of history one could haul together such inquisitive and at the same time delicate psychologists as one can in contemporary Paris: I can name as a sample – for their number is by no means small, ... or to pick out one of the stronger race, a genuine Latin to whom I am particularly attached, Guy de Maupassant.”
The Guardian: Like Death by Guy de Maupassant review – a sexy, intoxicating read
The Guardian: The Diamond Necklace and other stories by Guy de Maupassant - review
The Guardian: A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant
The Guardian: Winter reads: Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
2008 and 2011, adapting 24 of Maupassant's stories to critical acclaim and high viewership
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“1980 interview in Conversations with Grace Paley I was exposed to Dickens, Dumas, Victor Hugo, de Maupassant, Balzac. Muriel Rukeyser “The Education of a Poet”
Died 1893-07-06.
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Awarded Vitet Prize (1893).
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“There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort … The need of work is in me.”
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
Had thirty-seven printings in four months
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Is a social and political satirical collection of some of his best short stories, including the titular story which is shocking and scandalous, even by modern standards
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Finished his first novel, Une Vie (translated into English as A Woman's Life), 25,000 copies of which were sold in less than a year
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Published his first volume of short stories under the title of La Maison Tellier; it reached its twelfth edition within two years
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Published what is considered his first masterpiece, "Boule de Suif", which was met with instant and tremendous success
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Was transferred to the Ministry of Public Instruction and became a contributing editor to several leading newspapers such as Le Figaro, Gil Blas, Le Gaulois and l'Écho de Paris
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Left Normandy and moved to Paris, where he spent ten years as a clerk in the Navy Department
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And Maupassant volunteered to serve in the French Army without attending military academy as aspirant
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Studied at Lycée Pierre-Corneille (1868–1869).
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While he was in junior high school, Maupassant met Gustave Flaubert at Croisset on the insistence of his mother
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Studied at Lycée Henri-IV (1859).
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Born 1850-08-05.
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To obtain the right to use the particule or form "de Maupassant" instead of "Maupassant" as his family name, in order to indicate noble birth
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There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort … The need of work is in me.
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