Stringer, Jenny, editor. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Guy de Maupassant
Standard Name: Maupassant, Guy de
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Henry James | In Paris his friend Ivan Turgenev
introduced him to Maupassant
, Zola
, and Daudet
, among others. Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood, 1989. xx |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maya Angelou | On the glamorous idea of touring with a show in Europe, MA
writes that her images of London came from Dickens
and Winston Churchill
, her images of Paris from Guy de Maupassant
, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ella D'Arcy | Before Harland accepted it, Irremediable had been rejected by Blackwood's on the grounds that marriage was a sacrament and could not be so summarily treated, qtd. in Clarke, John Stock. Ella D’Arcy. 21 Mar. 2019. |
| Literary responses | Alice Munro | The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt
and John Updike
. Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov
or de Maupassant |
| Literary responses | Ella D'Arcy | H. G. Wells
reviewed Monochromes along with volumes of stories by Henry Harland
and by Henry James
. Dismissing Harland as a mediocrity and James for his style (which he likened to thorns, brambles, and... |
| Literary responses | Julia Frankau | Marie Belloc Lowndes
later wrote that Baccarat was thirty years ahead of its time, and had it been signed by Guy de Maupassant
it would have become and remained famous. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946. 57 |
| Literary responses | Ouida | Four years later, in March 1894, The Times pronounced, in connection with Two Offenders, that Ouida's prose style was now immeasurably superior to that of the distant or even recent past, and made her... |
| Literary responses | Violet Hunt | VH
's associate Rebecca West
had strong praise for Their Lives. In a review in the Daily News on 7 March 1917, she called it a work of art. She found in it a... |
| Reception | Antonia White | AW
won the Denyse Clairouin Prize for her translation of Guy de Maupassant
's Une Vie (as A Woman's Life). Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2024, Many volumes. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 294 |
| Textual Features | Julia O'Faolain | Adam is illegitimate, offspring of an Anglo-Irish landowner (albeit an impoverished one) and of one of the dispossessed. These inmates include a Catholic bishop who has tried to restore the monarchy and who now feigns... |
| Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
translated into English two works by Guy de Maupassant
: Yvette and Other Stories, and Mont-Oriol. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 47 |
| Textual Production | Ethel M. Arnold | EA translated, from French to English, an edition of the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev
’s letters to his friends in France, which included Gustave Flaubert
, Émile Zola
, Guy de Maupassant
, and the... |
Timeline
31 March 1889: The Eiffel Tower in Paris (named for its...
National or international item
31 March 1889
The Eiffel Tower in Paris (named for its builder) was inaugurated. The foundations were laid two years before this, to protest by Paris writers and artists including Alexandre Dumas the younger
and Guy de Maupassant
Texts
Maupassant, Guy de. A Woman’s Life. Translator White, Antonia, Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
Maupassant, Guy de. Mont-Oriel. Translator Jameson, Storm, Knopf, 1924.
Maupassant, Guy de. Yvette and Other Stories. Translator Jameson, Storm, Knopf, 1924.