by Guy de Maupassant · Editions Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080702920
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«Contes du jour et de la nuit» is the collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, published by Editions Flammarion in paperback (251 pages, in French).
Stories portraying the small and great misfortunes of the humble, in the city and the countryside, with a tone ranging from irony to fierce sarcasm. Several stories maintain the tension and open an unsuspected abyss, with death always lurking. Narratives in black and white where lightning crosses the depths of the night.
The work originally appeared in 1885. This edition, published on 4 January 1999, includes an introduction by Roger Bismut.
Suitable for readers of classic French literature and for school reading of nineteenth-century stories.
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.
