maupassant biographie literature geschichten

books:

Aforismos Sobre El Arte de Saber Vivir
Arthur Schopenhauer

Sudamericana, 2001

180 Original Short Stories by Guy De Maupassant

LeClue, 2007

Maupassant is one of the fathers of the modern short story. He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this respect. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.

The art of literature (Ann Arbor paperbacks)
Arthur Schopenhauer

University of Michigan Press, 1960

Every mediocre writer tries to mask his own natural style, because in his heart he knows the truth of what I am saying. He is thus forced, at the outset, to give up any attempt at being frank or naive--a privilege which is thereby reserved for superior minds, conscious of their own worth, and therefore sure of themselves. What I mean is that these everyday writers are absolutely unable to resolve upon writing just as they think; because they ...