Like death
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-18932017
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Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. Although his hair may be white, he remains a handsome and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Anne, the comtesse de Guilleroy, is a youthful 40, the wife of a busy politician. The painter and the comtesse have been lovers for years. Her daughter has finished her schooling and is returning to Paris. Her parents are putting together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be - until the painter and comtesse are each seized by an agonising suspicion, like death. In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, 'Like Death' is more than the equal of 'Swann's Way'. Richard Howard's translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of 19th-century fiction.
Main title:
Like death / Guy De Maupassant ; translated by Richard Howard.
Author:
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893, authorHoward, Richard, 1929-, translator
Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, 2017.
Collation:
240 pages ; 21 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781681370323 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
843.8
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
1859894