Maupassant, Guy de
Maupassant, Guy de ( 1850 – 93 ),French short story writer and novelist, a literary disciple of Flaubert and one of the group of young naturalistic writers that formed around Zola . To their collection of tales Les Soirées de Médan, he contributed ‘Boule de suif’, a story of the Franco-Prussian War that many regard as his finest. The hundreds of stories, simply and directly told, that he published in a brief creative life typically deal with country folk or urban employees and civil servants, though other social groups (aristocrats, prostitutes, soldiers) also appear regularly. La Maison Tellier ( 1881 ), Clair de lune ( 1884 ), Miss Harriet ( 1884 ), Le Horla ( 1887 ), L'Inutile Beauté ( 1890 ) are among his many collections. Besides his stories he wrote six novels, of which the best known are Une vie ( 1883 ), Bel-Ami ( 1885 ), and Pierre et...
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