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Who knows the title of this story by Guy de Maupassant that talks about this guy that lives alone and starts seeing someone when at home? When he comes fron work he sees this person on his chair but when he gets closer he sees that in fact nobody was there.
Guy de Maupassant's Existential Fear
A famous writer
Guy de Maupassant was a very important author. Leo Tolstoy and Friedrich Nietzsche were admirers of his. His early work belonged to the genre of Realism, but during the last decade of his life he produced a number of more ominous and foreboding writings, which seem to have been largely autobiographical; to be accounts of his own descent into madness.
Many literary critics have, accordingly, divided his literary production into two distinct periods. This powerful intellectual, who Nietzsche had once described as “a formidable psychologist”, wrote a large collection of dark and hypnotizing tales that present a state of mental disintegration. Their protagonists become insane, powerless as they are to put to rest their persistent fear: that nothing in our world is actually as it seems. They regard themselves as being surrounded by an unknown void; they can no longer regard their physical environment as familiar or safe.
The World as Illusion
In The Horla, one of his most famous short stories, Maupassant mentions a quote by his countryman, Montesquieu, according to which our impressions of the world would differ entirely if we happened to just have one less or one more organ in our body. This sentiment, which is prevalent in certain types of philosophical idealism, certainly seemed to have struck a chord with this once lively and adventurous veteran of the Franco-Prussian war: Maupassant will spend the rest of his life trying to examine if he in fact truly knows anything real, or whether his whole way of life has up to then been based on unquestioning acceptance of his environment as an actual source of insight.
He specifically claims, in a number of his works, that a life which doesn't involve reflection on this problem is one virtually identical to those led by lowly animals, purely on instinct.
A Mother of Monsters
Maupassant's works do have to be distinguished from those belonging to the concurrent French sub-genre of the “conte cruel” (a type of story mastered by Maurice Level), given that instead of focusing on brutality alone they feature an existential agony. The Mother of Monsters is the title of another of his celebrated – and sinister – creations.
In that story the protagonist is invited by his friend, to visit the countryside. After his host has taken him to see all the other sights, he insists that they also pay a visit to a woman he re
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So at this point Jeanne's father tells her to dress up good not telling her the reason, by reading, what I understood was that they ended up at some sort of wedding and at one point got away from the crowd and Julien proposed to her. My question is whose wedding was that and why did they go there in the first place?
La idea es que cada domingo elijamos al azar textos del documento online en el que cargo las sugerencias de todos
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Cada domingo se ofrecen para su lectura cinco tipos de texto: ficción breve (cuento, miniobra teatral, etc.), no-ficción breve (ensayo, artículo, etc.), mini o microrrelato, poema e historieta (occidental, oriental, viñetas, webcomics, oneshots, fragmentos, etc.). Cada quien lee lo que quiera y después, si quiere, comenta o discute los textos con otros usuarios.
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Pueden sugerir nuevos textos en cualquier momento. Especialmente faltan textos de no-ficción, microrrelatos y poesía. No importa si son canónicos, populares, controvertidos, actuales, antiguos, reflexivos, sentimentales, favoritos, detestados...
Los textos de este domingo: Tirada de números.
- Ficción breve: “El Horla” de Guy de Maupassant.
Cuento de terror fantástico que habría inspirado al relato "La llamada de Cthulhu" de H. P. Lovecraft. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) fue un escritor francés, principalmente autor de cuentos. Discípulo de Flaubert, es considerado uno de los principales representantes del Naturalismo (especialmente en sus relatos realistas). Escribió entre 1880 y 1891, cuando su enfermedad mental le impidió continuar. Murió internado en una institución.
- No-ficción breve: Capítulo “La cicatriz de Ulises” de Mímesis de Erich Auerbach (PDF) (pp. 3-14), sugerido por /u/CalaveraManny.
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) fue un filólogo, comparatista y crítico literario alemán. Especialista en Dante y en literatura francesa. Su obra más conocida es Mímesis, una historia de la representación/imitación de la realidad en la literatura occidental, considerada un clásico en el estudio del realismo en la literatura.
- Microrrelato: “Numeración incorrecta” de [Isabel González](http://estaticos.elmundo.es/elmundo/imag
Can anyone suggest me some of your favorite short stories by Guy De Maupassant?
