Description
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Summary:
Le monde est une mascarade où le succès va de préférence aux crapules. La réussite, les honneurs, les femmes et le pouvoir: le monde n'a guère changé. On rencontre toujours - moins les moustaches - dans les salles de rédaction ou ailleurs, de ces jeunes aventuriers de l'arrivisme et du sexe. Comme Flaubert, mais en riant, Maupassant disait de son personnage, l'odieux Duroy : " Bel-Ami, c'est moi. " Et pour le cynisme, la fureur sensuelle, l'athéisme, la peur de la mort, ils se ressemblaient assez. Mais Bel-Ami ne savait pas écrire, et devenait l'amant et le négrier d'une femme talentueuse et brillante. Maupassant, lui, était un immense écrivain. Universel, déjà, mais par son réalisme, ses obsessions et ses névroses, encore vivant aujourd'hui.
Listing Details:
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Edition: Le Livre de Poche (Classiques / BAC 2000)
- Language: French / Français
- Condition: Pre-owned reading condition. The text block and binding are completely solid, and the classic Parisian café artwork cover remains beautifully vibrant.
- Stored carefully in a smoke-free, clean environment.
Selling a well-kept paperback copy of "Bel-Ami" by Guy de Maupassant, published under the popular Le Livre de Poche Classiques series (featuring the notable "BAC 2000" student collection band on the cover layout). This is Maupassant’s most famous and gripping novel, delivering a brilliant, cynical critique of high society, journalism, and politics.
An absolute must-have for school or university students, literature professors, French speakers, or anyone looking to add foundational classic literature to their bookshelf.
About the Story:
The novel follows the spectacular rise of Georges Duroy—a penniless former soldier working as a low-ranking railway clerk in Paris. Lacking any real intellectual talent, Duroy discovers he possesses a different kind of weapon: his charming looks and magnetic influence over powerful women. Rechristened "Bel-Ami" by his admirers, he ruthlessly climbs from a novice journalist to one of the most powerful media and political figures in Paris by exploiting the elite society around him.
- Location: Available for local pickup in Jounieh. Delivery can be coordinated.
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