Notre Coeur; Or, A Woman's Pastime
Notre Coeur; Or, A Woman's Pastime
By Guy de Maupassant
22 Jun, 2020
The last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death aged just forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart.
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The last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death aged just forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a glacially dazzling beauty, wants Mariolle to attend her exclusive salon for artists, composers, writers, and other intellectuals. At first, Mariolle keeps his distance, but then he hits on the solution to all his problems: caring for nothing, in particular, he will devote himself to being in love; Madame de Burne will be his everything. Soon lover and beloved are equally lost within a hall of mirrors of their common devising. Less