In a letter to his friend Carolyn Comanville, Maupassant confessed after Faubert's death: "I feel the most painful of life, the infertility of every effort, the disgusting uniformity of everything that happens and surrounds us, and the spiritual seclusion in which we all live and which I did not suffer so much when I could talk to him / Flaubert /. It should not be forgotten that, under the influence of his teacher, Flaubert Maupassant , he bowed to Beauty as the only goddess to respect. Under his influence, a conscientious student learns to discover and recreate it by touching impressive images that horrify or nurture our imagination. It is perhaps the only force that Maupassant opposes to the dark impulses pushing man to death - love, sensual desire, admiration for nature and the dedication of energy within us.

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The novel of Maupassant "Bell-Ami" was published by the Parisian newspaper "Gil Blas" during the period from 6 April to 30 May 1885. In a separate volume, it was published in the same year by publisher Havard. Later, in his address "Towards Bellamy critics," the author says he wanted to "tell the life of an adventurer," and because his project required more space to be deployed because he had to trace one human fate and its realization in a certain environment. Without adhering to the prescriptions of the then-naturalized nature of the novel, Maupassant still stood as a narrator in a position corresponding to the then literary fashion. He has his characters in a world that is at the same time close to reality and the environment in which the author himself resides. Arman Lanu is convinced that in his novel "Bell-Ami", Maupassant includes his direct observations on the social circle of big entrepreneurs and the environment of cynical and unscrupulous journalists. It represents the satirical plan of the higher society, in whose spheres the only ambition is the rapid enrichment without regard to the means, without complying with the requirements of morality. Former Hussar Regiment Officer Georges Duroa, who was left with small pennies in his pockets, spoke across Paris' boulevards. He meets his old friend from the Forestry Force, who in the meantime has become editor of La Vie française's political department. Invited at dinner, Duroa finds himself in his home that night. The host presents to his friend his director and his wife, Mr. Walter, financier, man of money and transactions, a Jew from South France, director of the La Vrancese newspaper, and his wife, born Basil-Ravallo, the daughter of banker. Walter offers Duroa to work in his newspaper as a reporter.

Inspired and true editors of La France were half a dozen deputies interested in any speculation that the director was doing or supporting," explains Maupassant . In the Chamber they called them Walter's band and envied them because they and money earned him. Political editor Forresty was only a pawn in the hands of all these business people, the executor of their will. They told him the introductory articles, and he was always writing at home - "in peace as he said. Duroa enters journalism thanks to the help of Madeleine, the wife of his friend Pinocchio Forrest. After gaining a permanent place in the newspaper, he begins to act as a reporter. "In a nutshell, Duroa became a remarkable reporter, confident, cunning, quick, humorous, real wealth for the newspaper, as old Walter, who knew by editors, wrote Maupassant . Achieving his first success as a journalist, the former Hussar rushed to satisfy his masculine love: While serving in the garrison, Duroa had won several soldiers' victories, some easy success, he could boast even adventures in the higher society: seduce the daughter of one a tax collector who was willing to throw away everything and follow him, and the wife of a court clerk who tried to drown out of despair for having abandoned her. "So Maupassan returns to the hero's past. Soon Duroa managed to conquer a girlfriend of the Forresty family, the charming lady de Marelle. Her daughter invented the eloquent courtesy eloquent, loaded with an ironic suggestion called Bell-Ami / dear friend /. It perfectly responds to the adventurous aspirations of the Duroa parvenue: "He imagined that an extraordinary love adventure suddenly made his dreams come true. She was married to the daughter of a banker or a noble magician who met in the streets and captivated at first glance ... "In a few phrases, Mopassan sums up the" male "philosophy of his" hero ":"By the way, Duroa knew from experience that all women-whether they are secular ladies or mediocre actresses-experience a special attraction, some instantly emerging sympathy; but he did not know the women on whom his future depended, so he was losing patience as a horse stumbled.

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