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Guy de Maupassant /

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Guy de Maupassant /

[Book]

edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Philadelphia :

Chelsea House Publishers,

©2004.

103 pages ;

24 cm.

Bloom's major short story writers

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-98) and index.

Biography of Guy de Maupassant -- Plot summary of "Boule de Suif" -- List of Characters in "Boule de Suif" -- Critical Views on "Boule de Suif" -- Herbert Ernest Bates on Maupassant's Relationship to Chekhov -- G. Hainsworth on Flaubert and Schopenhauer -- Matthew MacNamara on Maupassant's Use of Natural Imagery -- Trevor A. Le V. Harris on Flat and Round Characters -- Gustave Flaubert on "Boule de Suif" -- Olin H. Moore on Romanticism, Sinful Women, and Lofty Sentiments -- Plot Summary of "Madame Tellier's Establishment" -- List of Characters in "Madame Tellier's Establishment" -- Critical Views on "Madame Tellier's Establishment" -- Martin Turnell on the Brothel -- Prosser Hall Frye on Maupassant's Eye for Detail -- Mary Donaldson-Evans on Ambiguous Religious Conviction -- Charles J. Stivale on the Relationship between Women and Their Clientele -- Plot Summary of "The Necklace" -- List of Characters in "The Necklace" -- Critical Views on "The Necklace" -- Richard Fusco on the Inversion Story -- Stephen Leacock on the Influence of Maupassant's Realism -- John Raymond Dugan on Setting -- John Cowper Powys on Coarseness and Predatory Humor -- Plot Summary of "A Piece of String" -- List of Characters in "A Piece of String" -- Critical Views on "A Piece of String" -- John Gardner and Lennis Dunlap on Specificity and Rhythm in the Short Story -- Percy Lubbock on the Act of Telling -- Anatole France on Maupassant's Nationalism -- Joseph Conrad on Maupassant's Allegiance to Facts -- Plot Summary of "The Horla" -- List of Characters in "The Horla" -- Critical Views on "The Horla" -- Joan C. Kessler on the Invisible Being -- Nancy H. Traill on First-Person Narration -- Janko Lavrin on Introspection -- Ernest George Atkin on the Psychology of Supernaturalism.

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Presents plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views of the author's most famous short stories.

Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893-- Criticism and interpretation.

Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893

Bloom, Harold.

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