L'Esthetique Romanesque de Guy de Maupassant dans une Vie, Pierre et Jean, et Boule de suif

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dc.contributor.authorFiki-George, David Olatunde
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-04T11:37:00Z
dc.date.available2014-02-04T11:37:00Z
dc.date.issued1998-09
dc.descriptionA thesis submitted to the Postgraduate School, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts.en_US
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT Guy de Maupassant, a nineteenth century writer wrote varied types of novels and stories, varied in subject, in length, in technique and in their impact on the reader. To deal with this large body of work, we examined carefully two of Maupassant's novels Une Vie, Pierre et Jean and Boule de Suif which is an anthology of representative stories. We made reference to a good many others in order to discover for ourselves the full meaning and value of Maupassant's world. Behind these novels and stories as well as others, is the general theme of betrayal-betrayal in the form of marital infidelity, deceit of any sort in human relations. Closely related thereto is the pervading sense of hypocrisy erected into a system of pretence by the society for the conduct of its operations. We examined the value of these novels and stories by exploring the hidden messages that lie beneath the entertaining surface, and tried to reveal how the novels and the folktales can be used to portray the dignity of Man, and shape human understanding of his existence based on insight into human condition. The study also attempted to expose the diversity and quality of Maupassant's creativity. He gives semblances of being clear and simple yet, for all the apparent simplicity, or perhaps because of it, Maupassant is an exceedingly difficult writer to deal with. His greatest virtue lies in the fact that his narratives sustain the readers' interest and that he develops them with economy and concision, selecting the precisely pertinent details and excluding all verbal flourishes or elaborate enumeration. The study exposes exactly the qualities that make him seem all too clear, quite simple and possessing none of those particular asperities which offer a hand-hold to critics and which abound in writers like Flaubert.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/189
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectL'Esthetiqueen_US
dc.subjectRomanesqueen_US
dc.subjectGuyen_US
dc.subjectune Vie,en_US
dc.subjectPierre et Jeanen_US
dc.subjectBoule de suifen_US
dc.titleL'Esthetique Romanesque de Guy de Maupassant dans une Vie, Pierre et Jean, et Boule de suifen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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