name: Guy de Maupassant
birth_date: 1850-08-05 00:00:00
death_date: 1893-07-06 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Fiction, Short Stories
influences: Arthur , Émile Zola, Ivan Turgenev, Arthur Schopenhauer, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac
avg_rating: 3.82
ratings_count: 201457
about: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. ...more