Happiness Pierrot. Stories. Maupassant G. de

Maupassant, the disappointed idealist, the cynic involuntarily, the sad mockery, the insincere bonvivan, the bored workaholic and the conductor of crystal artistic honesty, came to literature when the stories were already more popular than novels - at the end of the 19th century, during the storm of heyday of the media, at The public has already developed clip thinking that has not yet received its name.

Maupassant considered himself a student of Flaubert and Turgenev; They admired Leo Tolstoy and Chekhov; Isaac Babel consciously imitated him and unconsciously - Andre Morois; To this day, Maupassant is translated into other languages ​​more than all French writers. Each story of Maupassant is the essence of truth, a transparent crystal, in whose structure we see ugliness and beauty, the uniqueness and general admission of a person, the creature of cruel, tender and confused, crying from fleeting joy and laughing from inevitable despair.