"Ball of Fat: Selected Short Stories of Maupassant" Author: [France] Maupassant Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House 2022 edition

Editor's Recommendation:

★A collection of 23 representative short stories by the "King of Short Stories" Maupassant: a selection of popular works such as "Ball of Fat", "The Necklace", "My Uncle Jules", "The Woman Who Mended an Upholstered Chair" and so on, which best reflect Maupassant's aesthetic style.

★ Thoughtful annotations help you read more smoothly. Full annotations are provided for the western cultural background and allusions. There are full annotations for the new and old place names, names of people and historical allusions that appear in the text, helping readers to immerse themselves in reading classics.

★Includes the famous speech by Zola, the master of French naturalistic novels, at Maupassant's funeral, summarizing Maupassant's great life tied to words.

★ A more dynamic translation of Maupassant! A new, literal translation from French by a young translator without any abridgement. The translator, Huang Ke, graduated from the French Department of Xiamen University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and successively obtained a Master of Arts degree and a Master of Language, Literature and Translation degree from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan and the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is currently a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Paris-Cité in France.

★ The overall binding design is done by a well-known designer, and the embossed bulge shows the classic texture. The 32-page 125*185mm small-size design, the spine shape fits the daily life, and it is small and portable and integrated into life. "Must-read classics" are no longer a burden!

Contents:

This book includes classic works such as "Boule de Suif", "My Uncle Jules" and "The Necklace", presenting the tragedies and comedies of various groups of people in French society and capturing the complex human nature contained in daily life. This book also includes the speech of the French naturalist novel master Zola at Maupassant's funeral, summarizing Maupassant's great life tied to words.

About the Author:

Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893

A representative French writer in the 19th century, he studied under Flaubert. "I entered the literary world like a meteor, and I will leave like a thunderbolt." This sentence mentioned by Maupassant when talking to his friends is enough to summarize Maupassant's dazzling literary career. Maupassant is known as one of the "three great short story masters in the world" along with Chekhov and O. Henry.

Huang Ke

Young English and French translator, graduated from the French Department of Xiamen University with a Bachelor of Arts, and successively obtained Master of Arts and Master of Language, Literature and Translation from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan and University of Leuven in Belgium. Currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Paris-Cité, France.