Ball-of-Fat

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The first major short tale of French writer Guy de Maupassant, and often recognized as his best story, Ball-of-Fat in French Boule de Suif, tells the sad tale of an intervallic coach ride from Rouen to Le Havre in which transpires the venality of a righteous seducer by debauched and deceitful members of the higher class. The tale is situated at the conquest of Rouen during the Franco-Prussian War.

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a French author, commemorated as a master of the short fiction style, and as a representative of the naturalist school of authors, who portrayed human existences and fates and communal dynamisms in cynical and frequent glum words.

Guy was a pupil of Flaubert and his tales are branded by frugality of form and resourceful, easy ends. Most are situated in the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, illustrating the uselessness of war and the guiltless people who, involved in events past their authority, are constantly reformed by their encounters. He drafted around 300 short literature, six novels, three books about travel, and one book of poetry.

Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born in Château de Miromesnil or Castle Miromesnil, nearby Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure, now called as Seine-Maritime, department in France. His father was Laure Le Poittevin and Gustave de Maupassant, both from wealthy bourgeois families. When Guy was 11 years old and his brother Hervé was 5 years old, his mother, an free-thinking woman, gambled social humiliation to acquire a lawful separation from her husband.

Guy is regarded as among the fathers of the contemporary short fiction. He reveled in smart scheming, and acted as an example for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this regard. Among his popular short fiction, The Necklace, was emulated with a variation by both Maugham – Mr Know-All, A String of Beads and Henry James – Paste.
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