Live and creativity of Guy de Maupassant /part 7/

Maupassan's hero says that by rising to the middle of the politicians "you find yourself among the people who have been decapitated and failed, from the deputies." A French commentator claims that Bell-Ami is embedded in the journalistic guild as the oyster sticks to the rock. When he has to defend his novel from the attacks of his Paris-based press, he tells: "When I wanted to analyze moral corruption, I had to place it in its own environment." To this author's admission could be added and the words with which Mrs de Marel attacks Durea: "You deceive all of you, you exploit everyone, you get money and pleasures from everywhere.

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Whatever Bell-Ami does in his personal life, the La Vie Franz newspaper is much broader in the sphere of public opinion. When she reveals to her lover the mechanism by which the Exchange is struck, Mrs Walter explains in her own way the difference between different social and professional groups. She argues that most of the "small tenants who have put their savings in guaranteed by respected and respected political men and bankers state funds are most likely to be destroyed. In the Balzac novels created in the first half of the nineteenth century, a man's ambitions are often projected into a social environment in which people are involved in the frantic competition of power and money. Between the age in which the novel "Human Comedy," and the time that the atmosphere is reproduced in his novel "Bell-ami" Maupassant , many things happen and many public attitudes change radically. The panoramic view of Duroa's lifestyle, though not inspired by the height at which the ambitious young man Rastinyak rises at the end of the novel, " Le Père Goriot", reflects the transition from a generally romantic concept of the world to a new, enduring the ambition - the ambition to surmise the mask of business, behind which the civil-class gaining profits cleverly conceals its predatory morals. Georges Duroa is truly outwardly pleasing, but in fact unscrupulous and frankly amoral in the pursuit of his personal interests, a man who becomes a literary personification of the ambitious duplicator. This spoiled bonvivan relies only on women and stakes them as the main trump, who plays impunity in the otherwise complex life game. Not without reason at the beginning of the novel, his "hero" is marked with the irony "dear friend".

This "hero" of Maupassant could also be seen as a generalizing embodiment of intemperate sexual desire, as all his "intellectual" efforts are limited to the skillful exploitation of his innate instinctive attraction to beautiful women. Indeed, in Bellamy, the narrator, Maupassant , is particularly interested in the protagonist's "crooked" adventures in the novel. It is no accident that the work for the rise of the conqueror of the female hearts and bodies ends with a phrase in whose finale the word "lit"A typical example illustrating Bellamy's crude intimate strategy is the description of Mrs. Walter's possession: "He kissed her wildly on her neck, eyes, lips, without her being able to escape from these rash caresses, repelling her running away from his mouth, she gave him the kisses despite herself. Suddenly she stopped guarding and defeated, reconciled, letting her strip off her. He pulled one by one, skillfully and quickly, all the parts of her toilets with the light fingers of a maid. She pulled his blouse out of his hands to hide her face in her, and she stood straight, very white among her clothes. Through the psychological analysis of the fashion ambition to succeed at the cost of everything in life, the novel of Maupassant "Bell-Aami" becomes an impressively truthful evidence of the degradation that minimizes social morals in France at the end of the 19th century. The key to the reliance on the artistic messages set forth in it can be found in the aesthetic bias of naturalist novelists. The authoritative French literary critic, Albert Tibode, recommends that Georges Durrois be perceived as the "only colorful social type born in the school of Medan's novelists." / Where is the mansion of the founder of the school, Emil Zola, the adventurer, born into the bosom of a new world in which "the outcast of the commonwealth rises in politics through universal suffrage". In this world, all "shocks" that are financially successful are allowed. Modern French critic Jean-Louis Boury summarizes the career of the Career at the dawn of the Third Republic, much shorter and clever: "Then the man rose up as he flew near the ground."