Life. Mont-orol. Maupassant G.De

The heroine of the novel “Life” Jeanne dreamed of happiness, and immediately after marriage to her, romantic, ardent, 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 final, 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." The novel, after which Turgenev called Maupassant “undoubtedly, the most talented of all modern French writers.”

The novel “Mont-Oriol” is based on a love story between Christian Andermat and the Bretigna field, the place of action-included in Fashion Aquarius resort. As in other famous works of the author, the love relationships of the heroes are closely bombarded with 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.