253pages. 11,3cm x 17,8cm x 1,1cm. Poche. Boule de Suif, le conte de mon disciple dont j'ai lu ce matin les épreuves, est un chef-d'?uvre, je maintiens le mot, un chef-d'?uvre de composition, de comique d'observation. Paul Morand n'est pas moins enthousiaste que Flaubert: une grande nouveauté, une parfaite réussite , souligne-t-il, tout en comparant la nouvelle à l'Olympia de Manet. Issue, seule de son espèce, d'une sorte de concours littéraire lancé lors d'une des soirées de Médan, Boule de Suif fait figure non de manifeste, mais d'accomplissement. Le bonheur d'un titre, la virtuosité d'un conteur qui joue sur tous les registres -y compris le comique -servis par une plume souple et ferme à la fois, employée à peindre la cupidité aussi bien que l'amour, les préjugés ou le bonheur n'y sont pas étrangers. Mais quelle recette mystérieuse et efficace est ici à l'?uvre ? Qui oubliera, héroïne déchue de La parure, cette Mathilde Loisel dont la sensualité brûle le papier ? Maupassant à son meilleur saisit dans leurs côtés cruels les réalités de la vie , non sans dégager de cet amalgame soigneux de bourgeois avides et d'humiliés perdus une poésie âcre et forte.
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This review is from: Boule De Suif (Le Livre de Poche) (French Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is bad! I had to read this for an honors English class and it was absolutely unbearable. Although I genuinely appreciated Maupassant's other works we read in class, "The Necklace." and "A Piece of String," This one was nearly unreadable, with its excruciating detail and huge cast of characters. While we were assigned it to read in this class, not one of us understood it, and after we could not find it on Sparknotes, most of us, including myself finally found a summary on Wikipedia. This several-paragraph summary included every relevant detail of the 30 page story. Everything else in the book was just details describing the way the snow falls or something like that.But if you have time to read just one sentence about this book I highly recommend the last sentence of Boule de Suif's Wikipedia page, "As the coach travels on into the night, Cornudet starts whistling the Marseillaise while Boule de Suif seethes with rage against the other passengers, and finally weeps for her lost dignity." Yep, this is one wretched book.
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