Bel-Ami

Un chef-d'oeuvre de la litt?rature r?aliste fran?aise. Dans Bel-Ami , Guy de Maupassant nous plonge au coeur du Paris du XIXe si?cle, o? ambition, pouvoir et s?duction s'entrelacent. Georges Duroy, jeune homme sans fortune mais dot? d'un charme irr?sistible, utilise son intelligence et ses relations amoureuses pour gravir les ?chelons de la soci?t? parisienne. Roman d'ascension sociale et critique acerbe de la presse, de la politique et des moeurs, Bel-Ami est un portrait saisissant d'un monde o? la r?ussite se paie au prix fort. Passionnant, provocant et toujours d'actualit?, ce roman est une lecture incontournable pour les amateurs de classiques.

Un chef-d'oeuvre de la litt?rature r?aliste fran?aise. Dans Bel-Ami , Guy de Maupassant nous plonge au coeur du Paris du XIXe si?cle, o? ambition, pouvoir et s?duction s'entrelacent. Georges Duroy, jeune homme sans fortune mais dot? d'un charme irr?sistible, utilise son intelligence et ses relations amoureuses pour gravir les ?chelons de la soci?t? parisienne. Roman d'ascension sociale et critique acerbe de la presse, de la politique et des moeurs, Bel-Ami est un portrait saisissant d'un monde o? la r?ussite se paie au prix fort. Passionnant, provocant et toujours d'actualit?, ce roman est une lecture incontournable pour les amateurs de classiques.

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmée in Penguin Classics. Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, blackmailer and social climber in a world where love is only a means to an end. Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, Bel-Ami is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life - depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity. Douglas Parmée's translation captures all the vigour and vitality of Maupassant's novel. His introduction explores the similarities between Bel-Ami and Maupassant himself and demonstrates the skill with which the author depicts his large cast of characters and the French society of the Third Republic. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was born in Normandy. By the late 1870s, the first signs of syphilis had appeared, and Maupassant had become Flaubert's pupil in the art of prose. He led a hectic social life, and in 1891, having tried to commit suicide, he was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later. If you enjoyed Bel-Ami , you might like William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair , also available in Penguin Classics.

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmée in Penguin Classics. Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, blackmailer and social climber in a world where love is only a means to an end. Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, Bel-Ami is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life - depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity. Douglas Parmée's translation captures all the vigour and vitality of Maupassant's novel. His introduction explores the similarities between Bel-Ami and Maupassant himself and demonstrates the skill with which the author depicts his large cast of characters and the French society of the Third Republic. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was born in Normandy. By the late 1870s, the first signs of syphilis had appeared, and Maupassant had become Flaubert's pupil in the art of prose. He led a hectic social life, and in 1891, having tried to commit suicide, he was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later. If you enjoyed Bel-Ami , you might like William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair , also available in Penguin Classics.