Œuvres Posthumes (1910) is a posthumous collection of writings by Guy de Maupassant, the French master of the short story, published nearly two decades after his death. This volume gathers previously unpublished or uncollected works—short stories, essays, and fragments—revealing the raw, unfiltered genius of an author who chronicled human folly, desire, and despair with surgical precision.
Highlights include:
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Darkly comic tales like “Le Horla” (an earlier, lesser-known version of his iconic horror story).
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Autobiographical sketches hinting at Maupassant’s struggles with syphilis and madness.
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Journalistic pieces critiquing French colonialism and bourgeois hypocrisy.
A must for scholars of 19th-century realism, though less polished than Boule de Suif or Bel-Ami.
