by Guy de Maupassant · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080704092
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«Le Horla et autres contes d'angoisse» is Guy de Maupassant's collection of fantastic tales, published by Flammarion in paperback (256 pages, in French).
The work brings together narratives exploring madness, hallucinations and the supernatural, with the famous tale «Le Horla» as its centrepiece, alongside other stories such as «La main d'écorché», «Sur l'eau» or «Qui sait?». Maupassant portrays minds on the brink of the abyss and oppressive atmospheres that anticipate psychological horror.
This edition from the GF collection includes the introduction and critical apparatus by Antonia Fonyi; the texts are written in French and retain the nineteenth-century setting.
Aimed at readers of French classics and fans of psychological horror and late nineteenth-century fantastic fiction.
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.
