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"We fancied each other and that's that. Now it's over." Georges Duroy (the protagonist of

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When the cashier had handed him the change from his five-franc piece,* Georges Duroy left the restaurant. Lire la premi�re page

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4.0�toiles sur 5 social climbers, Jui 3 2004

Par	myshiak (washington, dc) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Penguin Classics Bel Ami (Paperback)

The novel can make you wonder how the society can be so porous to allow somebody to get from dire poverty to filthy richness. It is important to note that Georges Duroy, unlike Rastignac from Balzac's "Pere Goriot/Old Goriot", was never torn between good and evil and, unlike Julien Sorel from Stendhal's "le Rouge et le Noire/the Red and the Black" never won women's hearts as a plebeian. Georges Duroy may personify the cynical and corrupt society, however his success would not have been possible without the society, in spite of all its vises, being so sensuous (especially the female part of it).

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Sleaze, Manipulation, Mediocrity, Mars 29 2004

Par	I ain't no porn writer (author, "Crippled Dreams") - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Penguin Classics Bel Ami (Paperback)

This is a story of how sleaze, manipulation, and mediocrity prevail and get certain people ahead in life.

Georges Duroy is one of those incompetent losers who gets others to do his work for him and sleeps his way to the top, basically. This story is an expose of the corrupt and unscrupulous aspects of the newspaper publishing world and the immoral seductions of Parisian high society.

Duroy begins in the poverty and squalor of a worker's tenement building where he's struggling to make a living. Through sheer determination to change his situation and make something of his life, he moves to Paris and soon finds himself in the artistic salon of a wealthy and intelligent political hostess and the home of a rich Jewish banker and newspaper owner. Here Maupassant skillfully shows how a mediocre, untalented nobody becomes really successful in life through cunning, through good luck... and good connections!

David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"

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1.0�toiles sur 5 rien ne se traduit! il faut apprendre le fran�ais, F�v 23 2004

Par	Polyglot (cambridge, ma) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Penguin Classics Bel Ami (Paperback)

je ne peux pas comprendre les gens qui lisent la litt�rature fran�aise en anglais. d'abord, rien ne se traduit (tradurre e' tradire). deuxi�mement, en lisant, par exemple, "Fauxpassant" vous devenez l'esclave totale du traducteur. ce que vous lisez correspondre non pas � ce qu'a �crit Maupassant, mais aux id�es plates d'un traducteur qui ne sait m�me pas comment �crire! (c'est pour cela, n'est-ce pas, qu'il travaille comme traducteur...)

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Gorgeous Story on 19th Century French Society
Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893), if "Bel-Ami" is any indication, must rank as one of the best writers in the history of the western world. Read more

Publi� le Mai 26 2003 par Jeffrey Leach

5.0�toiles sur 5 A truly 'modern' classic
Maupassant's characters are more real and colourful than those created by any of the other French naturalists. Bel Ami, his first fill length novel, is simply a joy to read. Read more

Publi� le Jui 12 2001 par Stephen Mackintosh

5.0�toiles sur 5 right up there with Madame Bovary
I would never have known that Guy de Maupassant wrote novels along with his great short stories if another amazon reader hadn't turned me on to their existence. Read more

Publi� le D�c 9 2000 par M. H. Bayliss

5.0�toiles sur 5 French Tickler
We can always learn something from the French, and this novel of one journalist's rise in 1880s Paris is full of little 'life lessons' about the way of the World and how to turn... Read more

Publi� le Nov. 22 2000 par Captain Cook