Résultats pour "Guy de Maupassant" dans Historique

Boule de Suif est une nouvelle incontournable de Guy de Maupassant, à la fois courte et percutante. L’histoire se déroule pendant la guerre franco-prussienne, alors qu’un groupe de voyageurs fuit Rouen, occupée par les Prussiens. Parmi eux, Boule de Suif, une prostituée au grand cœur, va se révéler bien plus courageuse et humaine que les bourgeois "respectables" qui l'entourent.

El protagonista de este magnífico cuento—uno de los mejores escritos por el autor francés—es un hombre apasionado por la noche parisina, amante de las caminatas nocturnas solitarias y de la oscuridad que envuelve los días. Maupassant nos ofrece un paseo por los lugares más emblemáticos de Francia, nos permite conocer a sus pobladores y a una ciudad atrapada en el siglo XIX. El poder de este relato se encuentra en el potente significado que hay detrás de la luz y la oscuridad, del vacío que domina al narrador, y del trágico destino que le depara.

Bola de Sebo de Guy de Maupassant es un cuento ambientado durante la guerra franco-prusiana. Explora las complejidades de la naturaleza humana y la hipocresía social cuando los pasajeros de un autocar enfrentan dilemas morales y prejuicios sociales.

A three-mast Brazilian ship passes by and a man standing on the shore, waving to it. After sailing on the broad and getting back home, the man starts feeling worse with every passing day. He realizes that there is a supernatural being in his home, taking his strength and sanity away. The man tries to fight back and kill the ghost but it proves more challenging than he had expected. He realizes that he himself had invited the creature.

From Britannica, The Horla, by Guy de Maupassant, is considered a masterly tale of the fantastic. The story was originally published as "Lettre d'un fou" ("Letter from a Madman") in 1885 and was revised, retitled "Le Horla," and published again in October 1886; the third and definitive version was published in May 1887. It is presented in the form of a diary and energetically details the hallucinatory obsessions of a madman.

"Un golpe de estado" es una novela corta de Guy de Maupassant que narra la historia de un hombre llamado Chauveau, quien planea y ejecuta un golpe de estado contra un pequeño pueblo francés. Chauveau, un individuo resentido y ambicioso, aprovecha la situación política y social del pueblo para manipular a la población y tomar el control del gobierno local. A medida que la trama avanza, se revelan las maquinaciones y los oscuros motivos de Chauveau, así como las consecuencias devastadoras de su ambición desenfrenada.

Can a man lose his mind because of a braid of hair? Can people come back from the dead? "The Head of Hair" tells the story of one poor man who gets so obsessed with a hairpiece that he comes to believe that the lady it belonged to has returned from the underworld. Nobody believes him and he ends up in an institution for mentally ill but could he have been telling the truth? Did he really get a visitor from the past? B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories.

A man’s beloved woman suddenly dies of pneumonia. He cannot cope with the loss and spends a whole night wandering around the cemetery searching for her. However, what he finds and sees there is far from what he expected. Would you feel fear after reading "Was It A Dream?"? Then it may be interesting for you to find out what the characters in Maupassant’s short story "Fear" have to say about it as well. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories.