Like Death
By Guy De Maupassant
Translated by Richard Howard
By Guy De Maupassant
Translated by Richard Howard
By Guy De Maupassant
Translated by Richard Howard
By Guy De Maupassant
Translated by Richard Howard
Category: Literary Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction
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$16.95
Feb 21, 2017 | ISBN 9781681370323
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Feb 21, 2017 | ISBN 9781681370330
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Praise
“A story of love’s descriptive irrational power—think Proust’s ‘Swann in Love’…Like other great psychological novelists (Henry James was an admirer, as was Tolstoy), Maupassant proves a master at the slow sea change of human emotions, and even more their complexity…[Maupassant] turns an impassioned chronicle of destructive love into a very modern-seeming portrait of aging, friendship, and loss.” —Martin Riker, The Wall Street Journal
“You can practically hear the rustling of the ladies’ silks, or catch the sobs that are such a feature of the erotic lives of high society…And my God, is it sexy. This is a love in which intellect and emotion are at play at the same time. There is passion and there is calculation…Drink deeply of this intoxicating, heady work.” —Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
“Maupassant is the world’s most accomplished of narrators.” —Joseph Conrad
“The psychoemotional precision of Maupassant in an elegant new translation…A finely shaded portrait of desire, will, and the complex entanglements of love, set against cutting social commentary from a realist master.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred
“A psychological novel par excellence.” —Lorin Stein, Harper’s
“[Maupassant] is so relentlessly artistic that he puts the fear of philosophy in your heart.” —The New York Times
“Richard Howard’s elegant translation of Like Death has the cool exactitude and passionate interplay of characters that readers expect from Guy de Maupassant, whose 1889 novel tells with ironic detachment and killing specificity the story of a portrait painter’s great love.” —Shelf Awareness
“[Maupassant] is brilliantly clever.” —Henry James
“Maupassant is the world’s most accomplished of narrators.” —Joseph Conrad
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