by Guy de Maupassant · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498156904
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«Bola de sebo y otros relatos» is Guy de Maupassant's short story collection, published by El País in paperback (94 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together realist short stories by Guy de Maupassant set in nineteenth-century France. The title story follows a group of travellers trying to leave an occupied city after an army's defeat; among them is Bola de sebo, a kind-hearted woman. The narrative develops a psychological and realist view of the characters and the human condition.
The title story was originally published in 1880 as «Boule de suif». This edition is number 6 in El País's Relatos Breves collection.
Recommended for literature students and readers approaching the nineteenth-century French realist short story.
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
