A Life: the Humble Truth
✍ Scribed by de Maupassant, Guy; Pearson, Roger;; Roger Pearson
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press;OUP Oxford
- Year
- 2013;1999
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
`Every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) in which he sought to parody and expose the folly of romantic illusion. An unflinching presentation of a woman's life of failure and disapp.