Guy de Maupassant

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Oleg Volk

I have a nice 1920s edition of his short stories. The man was as much a cynic as Twain but more morbid than funny. The cultural references are quite dated but most of the attitudes aren’t.

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2 Responses to Guy de Maupassant

  1. L. says:
    February 21, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    Nice writer, and glad to see it promoted, but I’ll be a little pedantic : in French, the name comes with the particule only with a title or when used with firstname – for exemple : Guy de Maupassant or Monsieur de Maupassant, but Maupassant. The only exception is the case of false particule, like De Gaulle (note the capital letter on “De”).

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