Life. Maupassant Guy de

The Russian reader revealed the outstanding French writer Guy de Maupassan for himself, starting with the brilliant novel “Pyshka” and the novel “Dear Friend”, who helped to penetrate the world of protected erotica.

The novel “Life” (1883) put forward Maupassant among the best masters of Western European prose. Lev Tolstoy appreciated this book as "almost the best French romance since the time of" outcast "Hugo."

This is a kind of novel-biography, where the history of ordinary human life is given. The topic of lost illusions sounding in the book is interpreted in the spirit of fidelity to life truth. The disasters that fell on a young, dreamy, lovely Jeanne completely change the character of the heroine. Lonely old age makes her think about what life is. She receives an unexpected answer from the maid of Rosalie: "Life is not as good and not as bad as it thinks."