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Guy de Maupassant is the famous storyteller at the end of the last century. As a student and great admirer of Flaubert, he, like his great teacher, found his strength in the realistic, as objective as possible description of the subjects that matter to him: women (especially of low grade), water, sports (especially rowing) and the secret of the insanity that afflicted his brother and later on himself, and the secret of the false child. It took him a long time to find his style, but then success was his part. This extraordinary figure, haunted by fear and insecurity, but also indulging in sexual orgies, gradually found his literary path and the style that would make him famous.
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