Fiction, World Literature, Fiction Subjects, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction
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Overview
"Pierre et Jean marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy, triggered by one of the two brothers of its title finding himself the sole inheritor of the fortune of his mother's former lover." Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. But Maupassant's achievement is to have woven from this simple plot in a maritime context a brilliantly crafted exploration of the complexities at the heart of family life.Book Details
Published
November 22, 2012
Publisher
TREDITION CLASSICS
Pages
156
Format
Hardcover - French
ISBN
9783849139612