by Guy de Maupassant · CARREFOUR. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877141635
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«Pierre et Jean» is the novel by Guy de Maupassant, published by Carrefour in paperback (189 pages, in French).
Pierre and Jean, two brothers from Le Havre, see their lives altered when a family friend leaves his entire fortune to the younger one. Pierre suspects that the deceased's generosity hides a secret relationship with his mother, and fraternal jealousy surfaces. Maupassant combines social realism and psychological tension in his study of jealousy between brothers.
This paperback edition, published in 1997, contains a novel written in 1888.
Suitable for literature students and fans of the nineteenth-century French novel, it is a short work that often appears in school reading lists.
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.
