Reading Archeology and the War Tales of Guy de Monpassant

Guy de Monpassant was a French storyteller and novelist. He was born in Normandy (1850) and was a disciple of Flaubert and Zola.

The book I read this week is War Tales and was published at the time by Diaro Page 12. There are 94 pages of very interesting stories.

Monpassant unveiled his first story “Bola de Sebo” in the Les Soirées de Médan collection published by Zola. He shared with Flaubert pessimism and disgust for what he called "the philistism of bourgeois life."

Between 1880 and 1890 Monpassant wrote six novels being the most recognizable Una Vida and Pierre and Jean. He died insane in 1893.

Lía Olga Herrera Soto