The Biography of Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant was born August 5, 1850, at Castle Miromesnil of Tourville-sur-Arques. His family is from Lorraine but set in Normandy since the eighteenth century. In 1856 his brother Hervé born. His mother retired to Etretat in 1860 with his two son. In 1861-1862 Father Aubourg then load the learning of mathematics, Greek, Latin and catechism. Maupassant between the Yvetot seminar in 1863. Three years later, he became an unruly student and will be returned to his mother. The high school senior spends every Sunday at Croisset along with Flaubert, who guides him in his first poetic writings and constantly reminds him: look, observe, dissect the eye before writing. Guy de Maupassant is then introduced to the realist school. After obtaining his degree in July 1869, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law of Paris. But in 1870 it declared war with Prussia. Maupassant enlisted as a mobile guard and attends the debacle which he will discuss in several new scenes.

On 1 February 1873 he joined the Department of the Navy. Maupassant supports neither stress nor his colleagues. In 1875, he published under the pseudonym Joseph Prunier, his first story: A Hand Cutaway. Maupassant frequent major literary production of the moment: Turgenev, Zola, Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Mallarmé and many others. On the recommendations of Flaubert, he managed to integrate the Department of Public Instruction. In 1877, the writer suffers from the "great pox, one that Francis died."

1880 is the year of the consecration of Maupassant. He published suet ball, his first. The sudden death of Flaubert, that same year, deeply. It will not console the disappearance. Maupassant went back to work in 1881. The great success of La Maison Tellier encouraged. Maupassant now can live literature. In 1883, A Life, his first novel finally born after six years of gestation. In 1884, The Tales of the Woodcock is a masterpiece again. On June 7, 1885 Maupassant fate Bel Ami. much like its author. A very good year because it does not publish under thirty tales

In 1887, just Mont-Oriol. Horla the public to discover a fantasy world. Maupassant made the analysis of the progression of madness in a character who will eventually be dispossessed of his own personality. The writing periods alternate with trips to North Africa. In May 1889, Fort Maupassant published as Death. The fear of growing old and dying takes more thought. He left France for a trip to Italy in order to forget the image of the madness continues. In 1891 he made a cure in Divonne-les-Bains. His physical condition is such that it admits to her doctor: 'There are days when I want to fuck me roughly a bullet in the head. I can not read every letter I write gives me bad ... God I'm tired of life. 'A year later, in Nice, it opens the throat. It gradually sank into annihilation. In fact, last year a novel, The Angelus is started. The work will remain unfinished. His ailments are becoming more frequent and it leaves less room. Doctors decide to detain January 7, 1892 and it is that he will die at the clinic July 6, 1893, aged 43, after months of delirium and isolation.