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Alien Hearts was the last novel that Maupassant completed before succumbing to the effects of tertiary syphilis of which he was to die at 43. 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 three lovers bound by bitterness as much as passion. Maupassant's artist 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 his doting mistress, but remains racked by pointless infatuation. Richard Howard's new English version of this complex and brooding psychological novel reveals the final, unexpected flowering of the great French realist's art.
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Maupassant is so relentlessly artistic that he puts the fear of philosophy in your heart. --The New York Times
[Maupassant] is so relentlessly artistic that he puts the fear of philosophy in your heart. --The New York Times
About the Author:
[Maupassant] is so relentlessly artistic that he puts the fear of philosophy in your heart. --The New York Times
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), after serving in the Franco-Prussian War, became a close friend of Flaubert and his circle. He wrote hundreds of short stories as well as novels and verse. In his later years, he suffered from mental illness, and he died in an asylum.
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- PublisherThe New York Review of Books, Inc
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1590170350
- ISBN 13 9781590170359
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages232
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