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Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories
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Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct
but rational creatures capable of idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of
self-deception. Maupassant's disgust with creation was only equalled by his contempt for human
hypocrisy, and in these tales he takes a scalpel to our illusions and cuts to the bone. But his clinical
pessimism is redeemed by a sense of the absurd and a warmer compassion for 'humanity bleeding'.
Unsentimental but always honest, he persuades us that life is an incomprehensible, cosmic farce. This
translation of twenty tales shows Maupassant at his bitter, bawdy, chilling best. It features some of
his grimmest and most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of
Olives, and it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the short story. The
Little Keg is rich in comic invention, while the disturbing Who Can Tell?
draws its power from the strange forces which drove its author into madness.
Title: Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories
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Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct
but rational creatures capable of idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of
self-deception.
Maupassant's disgust with creation was only equalled by his contempt for human
hypocrisy, and in these tales he takes a scalpel to our illusions and cuts to the bone.
But his clinical
pessimism is redeemed by a sense of the absurd and a warmer compassion for 'humanity bleeding'.
Unsentimental but always honest, he persuades us that life is an incomprehensible, cosmic farce.
This
translation of twenty tales shows Maupassant at his bitter, bawdy, chilling best.
It features some of
his grimmest and most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of
Olives, and it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the short story.
The
Little Keg is rich in comic invention, while the disturbing Who Can Tell?
draws its power from the strange forces which drove its author into madness.
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