HE'S LITERALLY ME.
>>24867895You aren't as intelligent, your hairline is worse, and no one will remember anything you said. You literally aren't him.
>>24867916Why did you do that?
Based.
>>24868638>being mean is basedYou’re brown.
The one where the guy rapes a servant and then comes back decades later to see his son is some kind of retarded alcoholic was goodAlso the one where the guy finds an elderly man who dances in the gardens and then later introduces his wife and they were both professional dancers in their youthsAlso the one about the man who starts killing children as a part of his war against GodAlso the one where the prussians get a bunch of french prostitutes and then starts bragging about how all of France is there's and a French jewish prostitute stabs him to death and fleesAlso the one where the Frenchman starts feeding a Prussian soldier to fatten him up and then kills him and hides his bodyAnd the one where a Frenchman starts killing a bunch of Prussian soldiers And the one where a woman burns a bunch of Prussian soldiers in her attic after she finds out her son was killed in the warAlso the one where a woman gets infected with an STD from a Prussian and so decides to sleep with as many Prussian soldiers to infect themAlso the one where a girl pretends to help Prussian soldiers by letting them into their cellar but they lock the trapdoor and surround the house with soldiers to capture the Prussian soldiers I liked the story where a young servant on a farm has a romance with a young man who flees, she gets pregnant and gives the child to her relative. Eventually she marries the master of the farm but they're unable to have any children. Eventually she tells him that she has a child and he is very happy about it I've got the Pléiade edition of Maupassant coming soon, feels good he is my favourite author
Garcon, un bock is a great story>« À quoi ça sert-il ? Moi, je ne fais rien, comme tu vois, jamais rien. Quand on n’a pas le sou, je comprends qu’on travaille. Quand on a de quoi vivre, c’est inutile. À quoi bon travailler ? Le fais-tu pour toi ou pour les autres ? Si tu le fais pour toi, c’est que ça t’amuse, alors très bien ; si tu le fais pour les autres, tu n’es qu’un niais. » >« Non. Je me lève à midi. Je viens ici, je déjeune, je bois des bocks, j’attends la nuit, je dîne, je bois des bocks ; puis, vers une heure et demie du matin, je retourne me coucher, parce qu’on ferme. C’est ce qui m’embête le plus. Depuis dix ans, j’ai bien passé six années sur cette banquette, dans mon coin ; et le reste dans mon lit, jamais ailleurs. Je cause quelquefois avec des habitués. Thank God I managed to get a job because this story really hurtI don't like it when Maupassant writes very cruel stories, for example about starving beggers or animals being abused also les bijoux Les bijoux is just too damn meanAlso the one where a rich couple ask to adopt a child from poor farmers, one refuses which leads to the other accepting itThe son who was kept speaks like a poor person and has a very strong accent but the one who was adopted speaks proper french, that one hurts
Reading Bel Ami as an adolescent shaped my view of human relationships in a negative way. 10/10 would recommend.
>>24867895>>24868920What about the one where the hungry young laborer and an exhausted wet nurse on a train from Genoa to Marseille find mutual relief when, overcome by pain from engorged breasts, she lets him drink her milk?>https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/idyll/
>>24869186half way through it right now. it's amazingly good. the bit where all the newspaper journalists finish their shifts and grab their cup-and-ball toys from the cupboard cracked me up severely. felt almost Pynchonian. that was an uncharacteristic scene, though. what i like most about it the book how much he gets out of the simplest ideas. in a sense Duroy is a two-dimensional character, but he never feels two-dimensional. his problems are all simple and familiar (why can't i see into the mind of my mistress! is she comparing me with her previous lovers?), but they also feel like real life.
