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From: Excavatio[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Muelsch concentrates on similarities in the treatment of social alienation in "Boule de suif" and John Ford's film Stagecoach, underscoring the historical and political climates...
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From: The NationEveryone who has ever taken a course in the short-story or owned a "Library of the World's Best Literature" knows Maupassant's old shocker "Boule de Suif." Alexander Woollcott and George Kaufman have now turned it into...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNarrative framing is an important technique in Guy de Maupassant's fiction. For example, as Angela S. Moger discusses, Maupassant frequently employs a physician as tale-teller--in such stories as "La Rempailleuse" and...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 21. )The protagonist of Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de Suif" learns that virtuous acts do not always reap rewards. In fact, her altruism or self-sacrifice jeopardizes, rather than improves, her own life. Boule de Suif is a...
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From: Excavatio[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Wolter offers a reading of "Le Horla" as a naturalist narrative "that progresses beyond the examination of the ordinary into the realm of the extraordinary."] Guy de...
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From: Names[(essay date December 1992) In the following essay, Schapira investigates Maupassant's method for creating character names in stories, noting the additional narrative dimensions afforded by his choices.] In the ten...
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From: French Review[(essay date April 1999) In the following essay, Mellerski and Kline contrast French filmmaker Christian-Jaque's cinematic version of "Boule de suif" with the original story, concluding that the director's decision to...
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From: Voices of Authority: Criminal Obsession in Guy de Maupassant's Short Works[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Poteau-Tralie analyzes the condemnation of adulteresses that is a regular feature of Maupassant's stories, suggesting that this stance betrays the author's fear of female power...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 21. )As can be discerned from this outline, "Boule de suif" is constructed upon the interplay of three thematic "sub-codes"--the nutritional, the politico-economic and the military--with the main code which is sexual. To...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 21. )In "Boule de Suif," Guy de Maupassant tells the tale of Boule de Suif, a short, plump, inviting French prostitute, who is fleeing the advancing Germans during the Franco-Prussian War. Although seemingly immoral by...
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From: Midwest Quarterly[(essay date spring 2008) In the following essay, Fawell perceives "Idyll" as a parody of the eponymous literary genre, pointing out that Maupassant's story resists the expected sexualization of its characters.] We are...
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From: Excavatio[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Wolter states that "Le Horla" combines elements of the supernatural genre with elements of science and psychology to provide a naturalistic take on themes of the paranormal and...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionWhen the war between Prussia and France broke out in 1870, the 19-year-old law student Guy de Maupassant enlisted as a private in the French army. He served in Normandy with a regiment that was badly equipped and rather...