G de maupassant biography examples

BORN: 1850, Normandy, France

DIED: 1893, Paris, France

NATIONALITY: French

GENRE: Fiction

MAJOR WORKS:
“Boule de suif” (“Ball of Tallow”) (1880)
“La Parure” (“The Diamond Necklace”) (1884)
“Le Horla” (“The Horla”) (1887)

Overview

Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the finest short-story writers of all time and a champion of the realistic approach to writing.

His work is characterized by the clarity of its prose and the objective irony of its presentation, as well as its keen re-creation of the physical world. To the realist's ideal of precise speech, Maupassant added an economy of language and created a narrative style noted for its power, simplicity, and vivid sensuousness.

Works in Biographical and Historical Context

Dissolution of Family and Nation Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, the first child of Laure le Poittevin and Gustave de Maupassant, was born on August 5, 1850, near Dieppe in Normandy, France.

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a bitter and unhappy