Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a
ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami"
by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle
Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the
background of the politics of the French colonization of North
Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably
close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of
contemporary journalism.
Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis
of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative
tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its
identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons
why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as
well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a
novelist.
This new translation is complemented by fullest introduction and
notes of any edition currently available.
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