Dear friend and life. Mont-orol. A set of 2 books. Maupassant G. de

The brilliant writer's talent of Guy de Maupassan is noticeable both in his novels and the shortest short stories. He not only described the external events and movements of the soul of heroes in the moments of the highest happiness or testing. The classic of French literature studied the often illogicality and inexplicability of human actions. Its prose is permeated with sensuality, filled with thin observations and an analysis of an eternal riddle called "Passion". Each work of the author is an accurate sketch from nature, and each image created by the hand of an unsurpassed master is also expressive.

“Dear Friend” is one of Maupassant’s most powerful and famous novels. In it, a cynical adventurer and womanizer makes a brilliant career thanks to an attractive appearance and conscience, which forgives any meanness. Deep psychologism, vivid images in combination with a brilliant language provided the novel with extraordinary success among many generations. Three topics that are invariably relevant in literature-money, sex and power-against the backdrop of the socio-psychological life of France from the time of the Third Republic.

The heroine of the novel "Life" Jeanne dreamed of happiness, and immediately after marriage, romantic, ardent, ardent , a dreamy girl, it seemed that she had gained him. Alas, these illusions were very soon lost. The husband was not going to keep her loyalty, and only motherhood stopped her from the decision to break the marriage. Jeanne resigned to the fact that she was an unhappy wife, but passionately dreamed of being a happy mother. Alas, these hopes were very soon dispelled. Fate did not want to be merciful to the heroine. But in the finale, the author, as if puzzling, gives Jeanne a chance for happiness, for “life that you say is not as good, but not as bad as they think about it.” Mont-Oriol ”lies a love story between Christian Andermat and the Bretigni field, the place of action is the water resort in fashion. As in other famous works of the author, the love relations of the heroes are closely intertwined with the business, with the desire to enrich themselves at all costs.

, in fact, this is a social and satirical novel, rightfully part of the canon of classical works of critical realism, novel distinguishes a sharp rejection of pragmatism, deceit and hypocritical morality, leading to grinding personality, loss of spiritual integrity.