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Original Title:	Boule de suif
ISBN:	2253009636 (ISBN13: 9782253009634)
Edition Language:	French

Boule de Suif (21 contes)

Guy de Maupassant

Paperback | Pages: 253 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 5654 Users | 195 Reviews

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Pendant l'hiver, 1870-71, durant la guerre franco-prussienne, la ville de Rouen (Normandie) est envahie par les Prussiens. Pour fuir l'occupation, dix personnes prennent la diligence de Dieppe : un couple de commerçants, un couple de bourgeois, un couple de nobles, deux religieuses, un démocrate et enfin Boule de suif.
Le voyage s'annonce difficile, la diligence n'avance pas. Les voyageurs ont faim et seule la jeune femme a pensé à emporter des provisions, qu'elle partage généreusement. Les voyageurs font étape pour la nuit dans une auberge à Tôtes (sur le modèle de l'Auberge du cygne), occupée par les Prussiens. Le lendemain, ils ne peuvent pas partir, l'officier prussien exerce un chantage, Boule de suif doit coucher avec lui s'ils veulent repartir, mais elle refuse. Au début, tous sont outrés par le comportement du prussien, mais les jours passant et l'ennui s'installant, ils font pression sur Boule de suif qui finit par accepter.
Le lendemain, les voyageurs ignorent Boule de suif qui, étant occupée, n'a pas pu faire de provisions alors que les autres avaient préparé leur déjeuner. Aucun d'eux ne donnera ne serait-ce qu'un petit morceau de pain à la jeune fille. L'histoire se termine sur Boule de suif en larmes.

Boule de Suif --
L'ami Patience --
La dot --
La moustache --
Le lit 29 --
Le protecteur --
La chevelure --
Le crime au père Boniface --
Rose --
L'aveu --
La parure --
Le bonheur --
Une vendetta --
Coco --
Auprès d'un mort --
La serre --
Un duel --
Une soirée --
Le vengeur --
L'attente --
Première neige --

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Title	:	Boule de Suif (21 contes)
Author	:	Guy de Maupassant
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 253 pages
Published	:	January 2nd 1984 by Albin Michel (first published 1880)
Categories	:	Classics. Cultural. France. Short Stories. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 19th Century

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3.5 stars.

A cautionary tale about a woman who surrenders her dignity to the revolting hypocrisy of the upper class.

Excellent writing in Boule de Suif "Ball of Tallow" the ten characters in the main story are thrown together in a coach by their urgency to flee the imminent invasion of the Prussian army into french territory. Each character is cleverly portrayed as a deadly sin, and De Maupassant manages to make the reader question their own moral values while we sit back and watch the story unfold. Its a very thought provoking short story! The other short stories in my copy were also very insightful.

Very easy to read. Funny in the same time it can make you feel upset about the society..

I liked this book and the story. However, I read it in Dutch (reading it in the original language would have been better) and the fact that I had to read it for school didn't make it any better.

Writers like Kafka or Chejov, were outlined for being big narrators of stories, but a long before these should gain completely his laureates' reputation, there was a writer who turned to the story in the most notable of all his works. Finally to be recognized as the maximum exponent; the father, the king of the story. With more than 300 writings, Guy de Maupassant founded this literary style. Showing that it must not be underestimated in the most minimal thing, but everything opposite. Ball of

De Maupassant is one of the few French authors I feel competent to read in the original French. It helps that his chosen form is the short story - it makes him much less forbidding than someone like Balzac or Hugo. Although I've been in Paris for just a little over two weeks, I'm already doing pretty well with these stories. He is particularly good at exposing the hypocrisies of small-town 19th century French life, the title story of this collection being an excellent example. But his character