Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his This is classic Maupassant, beautifully rendered by Howard.
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He suffered from mental illness in his later years and attempted suicide on January 2, He was committed to a private asylum in Paris, where he died on July 6, Eminent translator Howard gives a leavened, modern feel to Maupassant's weary tale of a young aristocratic loser infatuated with an on-the-rise Parisian salon hostess. Andre Mariolle, a rich, unmarried year-old nobody, is introduced into the artistic salon of the wealthy young widow Madame MichEle de Burne and falls in love with the pretty hostess, a fiercely independent, utterly self-absorbed but intelligent coquette who is bent on attracting a cadre of slavish, brilliant admirers.
A thoroughly "modern" woman, Madame de Burne encourages Andre's advances only insofar as they proceed discreetly; however, Andre is head over heels. She gives herself to him but remains emotionally aloof, leading to Andre's self-exile from Paris and his hiring of a comely girl as his domestic servant-cum-mistress in the wrong-headed hope of "curing" himself. Maupassant draws out Andre's tale of woe, a vehement meditation on feminine egotism, in dire speculations.
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Thank you for using the catalog. Maupassant, Guy de, New York Review Books classics. Alien Hearts "was the last novel that Guy de Maupassant completed before succumbing to the effects of tertiary syphilis of which he was to die at forty-three.
It is the most original and surprising of his novels and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. Maupassant's hero falls for a woman of the world, a glacially dazzling beauty whose past with an abusive husband leads her to hold him-and everyone-at arm's length. He seeks solace with a servant girl, but remains racked by pointless infatuation.
Bilingual materials -- English to French. Summary Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three.
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