Alien hearts / Guy de Maupassant ; translated from the French and with a preface by Richard Howard.
2009
PQ2349 .N713 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Alien hearts / Guy de Maupassant ; translated from the French and with a preface by Richard Howard.
Uniform Title
Notre cœur. English
ISBN
9781590172605 (pbk.)
1590172604 (pbk.)
1590172604 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : New York Review Books, c2009.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from French.
Description
xiii, 177 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PQ2349 .N713 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
843/.8
Summary
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. "Alien Hearts "is the story of lovers bound by bitterness as much as by passion. 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.
Note
"A new translation by Richard Howard."--Cover.
Added Author
Howard, Richard, 1929-
Series
New York Review Books classics.
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