Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer,
considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the
form"s finest exponents.
He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this respect.
His stories about expensive jewellery are imitated with a twist by Maugham and Henry James .
Taking his cue from Balzac, Maupassant wrote comfortably in both the high-Realist and fantastic modes; stories and novels such as "L"Héritage" and Bel-Ami aim to recreate Third Republic France in a realistic way, whereas many of the short stories describe apparently supernatural phenomena.
The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a
symptom of the protagonists" troubled minds; Maupassant was fascinated
by the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry, and attended the public lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot between 1885 and 1886.This interest is reflected in his fiction.
Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer,
considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the
form"s finest exponents.
He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this respect.
His stories about expensive jewellery are imitated with a twist by Maugham and Henry James .
Taking his cue from Balzac, Maupassant wrote comfortably in both the high-Realist and fantastic modes; stories and novels such as "L"Héritage" and Bel-Ami aim to recreate Third Republic France in a realistic way, whereas many of the short stories describe apparently supernatural phenomena.
The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a
symptom of the protagonists" troubled minds; Maupassant was fascinated
by the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry, and attended the public lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot between 1885 and 1886.This interest is reflected in his fiction.