Pierre ve Jean

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

Who is not in Maupassant's world: Peasants, soldiers, bureaucrats who chew their cud at their desks and are steeped in paperwork, young bourgeois bohemians, ladies, country gentry, well-off but greedy farmers, greedy petty bourgeois, brothel owners and prostitutes, sailors, nuns, doctors... Almost everyone living in France in the second half of the 19th century completes the picture of a society in decay!

As can be understood, Maupassant has a pessimistic, or rather terrified, view of the ever-changing world order. Romanticism with its disgust towards bourgeois life, Naturalism with its desire to reflect the existing things as they are, and Realism as a general tendency are mixed into his stories and novels. The fears that bourgeois people, pursuing money and material values, will shirk their moral responsibilities and evolve into a "two-legged animal" will sometimes lead them to write fantastic stories in the style of Poe...

Pierre and Jean is one of Maupassant's most profound, shocking novels in which he extends his critical view to the far reaches of society...

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Edition