Chapter

 1 Int|                            GUY DE MAUPASSANT~A Study by Pol. Neveux~“
 2 Int|      thunderbolt.” These words of Maupassant to José Maria de Heredia
 3 Int|       name as yet unknown: Guy de Maupassant. After a juvenile diatribe
 4 Int|         du Moulin,” and it was at Maupassant’s house that the five young
 5 Int|          Each one read his story, Maupassant being the last. When he
 6 Int|            From his first battle, Maupassant was master of the field
 7 Int|           that at the present day Maupassant appears to us like one of
 8 Int|          will not dwell on Guy de Maupassant’s younger days. His relatives,
 9 Int|          describes in Une Vie....~Maupassant, like Flaubert, was a Norman,
10 Int|       realism of Champagne, so de Maupassant appears to have inherited
11 Int|        imaginary voyages.~Mme. de Maupassant, who had guided her son’
12 Int|         crows gathered in winter.~Maupassant made two divisions of his
13 Int|          a contempt for facility.~Maupassant himself tells us of those
14 Int|       months later.~Until the end Maupassant remained illuminated by
15 Int|       long years of his novitiate Maupassant had entered the social literary
16 Int|          his native forests, that Maupassant was in his early youth.
17 Int|       pantoum or the chant royal, Maupassant also desired to write in
18 Int|      broad lines, is the story of Maupassant’s literary apprenticeship.~
19 Int|          Zola.~From this time on, Maupassant, at the solicitation of
20 Int|      minutely were experienced by Maupassant himself; he does not know
21 Int|     consciously or unconsciously, Maupassant fought this malady, hidden
22 Int|          him.~Those who first saw Maupassant when the Contes de la Bécasse
23 Int|           and brilliant synopses. Maupassant’s remarks, in têtes-à-têtes,
24 Int|         idle word....~To identify Maupassant with his characters is a
25 Int|     produce them....”~That is why Maupassant himself says to us, “No,
26 Int|        Madame Bovary? And so with Maupassant, who, pen in hand, is the
27 Int| literature, so much in vogue when Maupassant became known. But despite
28 Int|      espoir d’“heritage.”~Why did Maupassant at the start win universal
29 Int|          and you will see how, in Maupassant’s prose, ancestors, whom
30 Int|     laughter and ridicule....~But Maupassant’s stories are singularly
31 Int|        novels of Emile Pouvillon. Maupassant is not one of them. He knows
32 Int|       truth.... In his pessimism, Maupassant despises the race, society,
33 Int| civilization and the world....~If Maupassant draws from anyone it is
34 Int|          la petite Roque.~And yet Maupassant adores this nature, the
35 Int|        With an inborn perception, Maupassant at once seizes on the principal
36 Int|         non-commissioned officer.~Maupassant was always impatient to “
37 Int|        and very careful at first, Maupassant, in the fever of production,
38 Int|   assonances, do not always shock Maupassant, who is sometimes insensible
39 Int|        not satisfied, and accused Maupassant, somewhat harshly, of not
40 Int|          eminent academician that Maupassant must be a great writer,
41 Int|        and the drama.”~A classic, Maupassant undoubtedly is, as the critic
42 Int|  verbosity.~For applause and fame Maupassant cared nothing, and his proud
43 Int|      approximations.”~For nature, Maupassant had an ardent passion....
44 Int|         to take the place of air.~Maupassant’s philosophy is as little
45 Int|           suffering.~In any case, Maupassant’s pessimism becomes logical
46 Int|        has the least share in it. Maupassant is helpful to all those
47 Int|          Such appears to me to be Maupassant, the novelist, a story-teller,
48 Int|   Contemporains” has written that Maupassant produced novels as an apple-tree
49 Int|           l’Ostel de Courtoisie,” Maupassant cultivates the usual abstractions
50 Int|      after, fêted, petted.... But Maupassant never let himself be carried
51 Int|         genius that burns in us.”~Maupassant had to bend to the conditions
52 Int|        cave he had entered....~If Maupassant never became the slave of
53 Int|           This nobler personality Maupassant owes to those sufferings
54 Int|           this sensitiveness that Maupassant seeks to hide, is plain
55 Int|    remembrance.~Occasionally, the Maupassant of former days protests
56 Int|         and not literary enough.”~Maupassant’s pity now takes a pathetic
57 Int|         the general confession of Maupassant. To those who come after
58 Int|          against a cruel fate....~Maupassant retired to Cannes not far
59 Int|           language, in his tears, Maupassant had, I know not what, of