by Guy de Maupassant · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782218042140
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«Boule de suif», followed by «Vivre en temps de guerre», is the short story by Guy de Maupassant published by Hatier in paperback (127 pages, in French).
The story takes place during the Franco-Prussian War: a group of travellers from different social classes flees Rouen by stagecoach. Among them is Boule de Suif, a prostitute whose generosity and patriotism contrast with the hypocrisy and selfishness of her companions. Maupassant thus criticises the double moral standard of French society.
French-language edition from 1994, in the Classiques Hatier collection, with complete text and the group of texts «Vivre en temps de guerre»; the short story was originally published in 1880.
Given its school edition, it is aimed at students of French and readers of nineteenth-century French classics.
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.
