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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Artist
- de Maupassant, Guy
- ISBN
- 9780871403681
- Book Title
- Necklace and Other Stories : Maupassant for Modern Times
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Original Language
- French
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 23.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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From the best-selling translator of Némirovsky's Suite Française comes this bold new translation that reinterprets Guy de Maupassant's best works for a new generation. A Parisian civil servant turned protégé of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of French literature but also a pioneer of psychological realism and modernism who helped define the form. Credited with influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel, and O. Henry, Maupassant had, at the time of his death at the age of forty-two, written six novels and some three hundred short stories. Yet in English, Maupassant has, curiously, remained unappreciated by modern readers due to outdated translations that render his prose in an archaic, literal style. In this bold new translation, Sandra Smith--the celebrated translator of Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise --brings us twenty-eight of Maupassant's essential stories and two novellas in lyrical yet accessible language that brings Maupassant into vibrant English. In addition to her sparkling translation, Smith also imposes a structure that captures the full range of Maupassant's work. Dividing the collection into three sections that reflect his predominant themes--nineteenth-century French society, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, and the supernatural--Smith creates "an arrangement suggesting a culture of relation, of structure, of completion" (Richard Howard). In "Tales of French Life," we see Maupassant explore the broad swath of French society, not just examining the lives of the affluent as was customary for writers in his day. In the title story of the collection, "The Necklace," Maupassant crafts a devastating portrait of misplaced ambition and ruin in the emerging middle class. The stories in "Tales of War" emerge from Maupassant's own experiences in the devastating Franco-Prussian War and create a portrait of that disastrous conflict that few modern readers have ever encountered. This section features Maupassant's most famous novella, "Boule de Suif." The last section, "Tales of the Supernatural," delves into the occult and the bizarre. While certain critics may attribute some of these stories and morbid fascination as the product of the author's fevered mind and possible hallucinations induced by late-stage syphilis, they echo the gothic horror of Poe as well as anticipate the eerie fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. The result takes readers from marriage, family, and the quotidian details of life to the disasters of war and nationalism, then to the gothic and beyond, allowing us to appreciate Maupassant in an idiom that matches our own times. The Necklace and Other Stories enables us to appreciate Maupassant as the progenitor of the modern short story and as a writer vastly ahead of his time.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0871403684
ISBN-13
9780871403681
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204215777
Product Key Features
Book Title
Necklace and Other Stories : Maupassant for Modern Times
Original Language
French
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Classics
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2349.A4e5 2015
Reviews
Sandra Smith has a sterling reputation for shaking the dust off previous translations while leaving the meaning and the feeling of a classic work of literature intact. She has succeeded again with this beloved collection of stories by Maupassant and delivered in English the vitality and excitement his first 19th century French readers appreciated. I greatly admire The Necklace and Other Stories for its fresh and rich notes., Smith successfully captures Maupassant's depiction of 19th-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid translation of some wonderful short stories., Sandra Smith's new translation gives us a Maupassant for the twenty-first century: lively, sparkling, and sharp-edged. Smith brings Maupassant out of the museum and makes him our contemporary., It is a great relief to lovers of literature (including, I should imagine, the ghost of Guy de Maupassant) to read Sandra Smith's superb translation of thirty of the three hundred Maupassant stories in an arrangement suggesting a culture of relation, of structure, of completion. It is my hope that this sensitive selection of Maupassant's stories will move readers on to Maupassant's novels, a literary form with not only the tyronic connection of shorter to longer, but the attributes of range, development, and consummation., Sandra Smith has a sterling reputation for shaking the dust off previous translations while leaving the meaning and the feeling of a classic work of literature intact. She has succeeded again with this beloved collection of stories by Maupassant and delivered in English the vitality and excitement his first nineteenth-century French readers appreciated., This new translation of Guy de Maupassant's short stories sings. No one has rendered Maupassant's quick, compact, genteel style better than Sandra Smith...Maupassant for Modern Times is a superb introduction to what it must have felt like to live at the end of the nineteenth-century in and around Paris: a must-read alongside the world of Impressionist painting and music, a delightful 'day in the country' without leaving home., Maupassant may have known more about venality and lust than any writer of his age, and yet he remains an artist of surprising delicacy and extraordinary range. The nightmares of war and of one's own obsessions, the sorrows of marriage and love, the delusions of pride: Sandra Smith's masterful new translations show it all to us, in a language as supple and brisk as the French original itself, and her selection includes many little-known masterpieces alongside some of his most famous tales.
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-013246
Dewey Decimal
843/.8
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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