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.
Joachim Neugroschel's translations include definitive renderings of
Kafka, Mann, Racine, Moli re, Bataille, and many others; his most
recent book is No Star Too Beautiful- An Anthology of Yiddish
Stories from 1832 to the Present. He has been awarded the
French-American Foundation Translation Prize, the Goethe House/PEN
Translation Prize (twice), and Guggenheim and NEA grants. He lives
in Belle Harbor, New York.
Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon (available from
Random House Trade Paperbacks).
From the Hardcover edition.
“Slyly intelligent, engaging, hyper-observant of human nature with all its glories, foibles, and fragile pretense, Maupassant’s stories are as relevant today as when they were first written.” —Elizabeth Berg
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