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A Life - The Humble Truth (Paperback)
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A Life - The Humble Truth (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad
sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures
and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to
walk the earth'
What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if
art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be
true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the
first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) in which
he sought to parody and expose the folly of romantic illusion. An
unflinching presentation of a woman's life of failure and
disappointments, where fulfillment and happiness might have been
expected, A Life recounts Jeanne de Lamare's gradual lapse into a
state of disillusion.
With its intricate network of parallels and oppositions, IA Life
reflects the influence of Flaubert in its attention to form and its
coherent structure. It also expresses Maupassant's characteristic
naturalistic vision in which the satire of bourgeois manners, the
representation of the aristocracy in pathological decline, the
undermining of human individuality and ideals, and the study of
deterioration and disintegration, all play a role. But above all
Maupassant brings to his first novel the short story writer's
genius for a focused tension between stasis and change, and A Life
is one of his most compelling portraits of dispossession and
powerlessness.
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