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Guy de Maupassant
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Guy de Maupassant :
The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student", but his parents provided an environment of "constant ideological discussion at home, argument and disputation all the time... it was the common currency of day-to-day living that ideas were discussed around the table, and it was taken for granted that there were books in the house and that we would read". The books mostly had a leftward slant (Tolstoy, Gorky, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis) but Wesker soon reached out to Balzac, Maupassant and a broader raange of literature'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Wesker Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : Bel-Ami
'...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he said to himself, on re-reading "Bel-Ami" after ten years in 1903 - "People might easily say that in "A Man from the North" I had plagiarized from it..."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : Une Vie
'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been done to him.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant :
''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : Bel-Ami
Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and delicate attention in sending me Maupassant's ineffable novel, which I fell upon and devoured, with the utmost relish and gratitude. It brightened me up, here, for a day or two, amazingly."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : Notre Coeur
Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Unknown
Guy de Maupassant : [tales: short stories]
'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse de Cleves" (which inspired his play "Caesar's Wife"), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" and "La Chartreuse de Parme", Balzac's "Pere Goriot", Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Somerset Maugham Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : Bel-Ami
'. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking, disgusting, attractive, overwhelmingly-powerful novels I have ever read. It would be a good antidote to Le Jardin de Berenice. Would you like it?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : Notre Coeur
'Saturday,13th February, Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : unknown
'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you must read). 2. de Maupassant. 3. de Goncourts. 4. George Moore?the great author who can neither write nor spell! Stevenson only helps me in minute details of style.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : La Maison Tellier
'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : Une Vie
Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -- in comparison [to last chapter of own work in progress]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : unknown
Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : unknown
'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to write -only the day before yesterday.["The Two Vagabonds" subsequently to become "An Outcast of the Islands"(1896)]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book, see additional comments
Guy de Maupassant : Pierre et Jean
'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all - with the profoundest despair. it seems nothing but has a technical complexity which makes me tear my hair. one feels like weeping with rage while reading it. Ah well!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : [Stories]
'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual underlining.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Unknown
Guy de Maupassant : 'tale'
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have just got to the end practically of the last batch I ordered out. I suddenly thought I must read Maupassant again & when I reread the tale about the child who is pinched on the buttocks by the adulterating captain I thought I was right. I also read [the Earl of Cromer's] Modern Egypt & you can deduce my state of mind by the fact that I think it is the greatest book written in the last 25 years.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf Print: Book
Guy de Maupassant : Stories from De Maupassant [English title]
Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occurred to me as improvement. Your work and your corrections are all right. The preface is extremely good.' Hence follow twelve lines of minor comment about the translation, including delicately skirting around Mrs.Hueffer's naive misuse of the French verb 'baiser' instead of 'embrasser'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Proofs
Guy de Maupassant : Yvette and Other Stories
'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Guy De Maupassant :
'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cunninghame Graham, various periodicals, and a book, which has always been a mystery to me, "Out of the Hurly Burly" by Max Ad[e]ler. In the window stood an arm chair of cherry wood, lacquered black, on which my father often sat to read for half an hour or so before "turning in".'