Bel-Ami
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'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul SartreMaupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siecle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the Frenchcolonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism.Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finestFrench novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.
| ISBN-13 | 9780199553938 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0199553939 |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 7.60 x 0.80 x 5.00 In |
| List Price | $13.95 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 368 pages |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Published On | 2008-10-15 |
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