Useless Beauty
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Guy De Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was a French writer and poet considered to be one of the pioneers of the modern short story whose best-known works include "Boule de Suif," "Mother Sauvage," and "The Necklace." De Maupassant was heavily influenced by his mother, a divorcée who raised her sons on her own, and whose own love of the written word inspired his passion for writing. While studying poetry in Rouen, de Maupassant made the acquaintance of Gustave Flaubert, who became a supporter and life-long influence for the author. De Maupassant died in 1893 after being committed to an asylum in Paris.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Audiobook.......This novella was my first reading of anything by Guy de Maupassant. Clearly it was a vehicle for the author to espouse his observations and beliefs. And in this cas, it worked well from the reader's standpoint as well as the author's. The guiding points, in my opinion are twofold: 1) Beauty perverts and misleads the beholder2) Human beings are not the intended result of God's gift of life, and will not likely survive in the long-term because of their ability to think. Interesting, n'est-ce pas?