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Yvette
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72 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1884
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Guy de Maupassant
6,979books2,923followersHenri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
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May 31, 2012
3.5 The second half was the much more compelling part, overall this was magnificently written. The word of this book is imperceptibly.
This was okay. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She seems to be oblivious of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when she goes away to a holiday at the river, she realizes that the Baron Saval is engaging her mother in such activities and she suddenly feels dirty. She wants to get away from her fate and so tries to inveigle her mother into the idea of living as honest women. However, the Marquise refuses, and explains that they would never be able to survive as working women. That their life of luxury would be so horrifically reduced. Yvette seems to suddenly have no choice. She must kill herself. Through chloroform. So, she goes from pharmacist to pharmacist and collects small vials of it and eventually has a sufficient amount. Before she commits the act, she runs around the town with her mother's guests, making them silly things such as pretending to go to war, riding children's horses, making army noises.
Then comes the best part of the book. Instead of killing herself through chloroform, she accidentally induces a psychedelic trip, and she decides not to kill herself, but keeps on inducing trips instead. Over and over until she passes out. Lol, I loved that part. It was greatly described, the way she was so resolute on dying, and how quickly she changed her mind to just get high. So from this, I gathered: if you want to kill yourself, get high instead and just mellow the fuck out.
This was good. Slow in the beginning, and then awesome to the end.
This was okay. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She seems to be oblivious of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when she goes away to a holiday at the river, she realizes that the Baron Saval is engaging her mother in such activities and she suddenly feels dirty. She wants to get away from her fate and so tries to inveigle her mother into the idea of living as honest women. However, the Marquise refuses, and explains that they would never be able to survive as working women. That their life of luxury would be so horrifically reduced. Yvette seems to suddenly have no choice. She must kill herself. Through chloroform. So, she goes from pharmacist to pharmacist and collects small vials of it and eventually has a sufficient amount. Before she commits the act, she runs around the town with her mother's guests, making them silly things such as pretending to go to war, riding children's horses, making army noises.
Then comes the best part of the book. Instead of killing herself through chloroform, she accidentally induces a psychedelic trip, and she decides not to kill herself, but keeps on inducing trips instead. Over and over until she passes out. Lol, I loved that part. It was greatly described, the way she was so resolute on dying, and how quickly she changed her mind to just get high. So from this, I gathered: if you want to kill yourself, get high instead and just mellow the fuck out.
This was good. Slow in the beginning, and then awesome to the end.
March 11, 2019
ένας μικρός πολυτιμος λίθος από τις καλαίσθητες και μοναδικές εκδόσεις Φαρφουλάς, που νομίζω ότι θα ευχαριστηθεί κάθε αναγνώστης κάθε ηλικίας...Ελαφρύ και ανοιξιάτικο, με ρέουσα γλώσσα διαβάζεται από αρσενικούς και θηλυκούς αναγνώστες οι οποιοι, ωστόσο διαθέτουν αίσθηση του χιουμορ! Οι εκδόσεις Φαρφουλάς κάνουν εξαιρετική δουλειά και σας προτρέπω να αναζητήσετε και τους υπόλοιπους τιτλους από την ιδια σειρα ( "Ανοιξιάτικη Νύχτα και άλλα διηγήματα"-Pierre Louys & "Μεσσαλίνα"- Alfred Jarry).
August 27, 2017
Yvette
Maupassant (1850 � 1893)
Il s’agit vraiment d’une histoire courte et simple, et une conclusion ouverte à l’imagination du lecteur.
Yvette découvre à l’âge de 18 ans que sa mère, la riche et célèbre Marquise Obardi, n’est qu’une courtisane qui doit sa richesse aux nombreux prétendants tourbillonnant autour de leur maison, comme des papillons. Des aventuriers pour la plupart, bardé de décorations et faux titres de noblesse.
Les femmes à cette époque ne pouvaient espérer d’être épousé par un aristocrate, que si elle faisait partie de la noblesse elle-même.
Sinon, une jeune fille était une valeur d'un un bon prix, tant qu’elle était jeune et belle.
Bien que peu vraisemblable qu’Yvette, à l’âge de 18 ans, ayant grandi dans ce milieu, n’avait pas compris de quoi la vie de sa mère était faite, elle avait imaginé que tous ces hommes à ses pieds la suivaient pour la demander un jour en mariage.
Le réveil est dur.
De quoi peut être fait son avenir ?
Maupassant (1850 � 1893)
Il s’agit vraiment d’une histoire courte et simple, et une conclusion ouverte à l’imagination du lecteur.
Yvette découvre à l’âge de 18 ans que sa mère, la riche et célèbre Marquise Obardi, n’est qu’une courtisane qui doit sa richesse aux nombreux prétendants tourbillonnant autour de leur maison, comme des papillons. Des aventuriers pour la plupart, bardé de décorations et faux titres de noblesse.
Les femmes à cette époque ne pouvaient espérer d’être épousé par un aristocrate, que si elle faisait partie de la noblesse elle-même.
Sinon, une jeune fille était une valeur d'un un bon prix, tant qu’elle était jeune et belle.
Bien que peu vraisemblable qu’Yvette, à l’âge de 18 ans, ayant grandi dans ce milieu, n’avait pas compris de quoi la vie de sa mère était faite, elle avait imaginé que tous ces hommes à ses pieds la suivaient pour la demander un jour en mariage.
Le réveil est dur.
De quoi peut être fait son avenir ?
February 18, 2024
📚ایوِت و ۳ داستان دیگر/ نشر مهراندیش
«زنهاهميشه تغییر میکنند� کسی احمق است که از این موضوع زود عصبانی شود...»
از اون کتابایی بود که با خودم گفتم این دقیقا کتابیه که واسه این روزای من نوشته شده و خیلی بهم چسبید:)بعد از هفتهه� کلنجار رفتن با کتابها� مختلف، یه انتخاب یهویی و دلی تو شهرکتاب نجاتت میده و روحت رو به داستان و ادبیات و حتی زندگیت برمیگردونه.
نمیدونم چجوری توصیفش کنم اما ایوِت خیلی انتخاب جالب و خوبی بود از بین ۳۰۶ داستانِ موپاسان و خیلی خوشحالم که روزمو ساخت، یک سره خوندمش و هم از فضای داستان خیلی لذت بردم هم از جملات و همذاتپنداری با کرکتر اصلی و هم پایانبندی🎀
۳ تا داستان کوتاه دیگه هم خیلی جالب و عجیب بودن، یطوری که تا همیشه تو ذهنم میمونن با وجود اینکه زیر ۱۰ صفحه بودن!
خلاصه که قلم موپاسان قبل از اینکه رمان اصلیش یک زندگی رو بخونم حسابی دلمو برد✨️
«زنهاهميشه تغییر میکنند� کسی احمق است که از این موضوع زود عصبانی شود...»
از اون کتابایی بود که با خودم گفتم این دقیقا کتابیه که واسه این روزای من نوشته شده و خیلی بهم چسبید:)بعد از هفتهه� کلنجار رفتن با کتابها� مختلف، یه انتخاب یهویی و دلی تو شهرکتاب نجاتت میده و روحت رو به داستان و ادبیات و حتی زندگیت برمیگردونه.
نمیدونم چجوری توصیفش کنم اما ایوِت خیلی انتخاب جالب و خوبی بود از بین ۳۰۶ داستانِ موپاسان و خیلی خوشحالم که روزمو ساخت، یک سره خوندمش و هم از فضای داستان خیلی لذت بردم هم از جملات و همذاتپنداری با کرکتر اصلی و هم پایانبندی🎀
۳ تا داستان کوتاه دیگه هم خیلی جالب و عجیب بودن، یطوری که تا همیشه تو ذهنم میمونن با وجود اینکه زیر ۱۰ صفحه بودن!
خلاصه که قلم موپاسان قبل از اینکه رمان اصلیش یک زندگی رو بخونم حسابی دلمو برد✨️
February 27, 2022
It's not a very ambitious story but Maupassant's writing style is so beautiful, specially when he's describing the surroundings. This novella focuses on 4 characters and how they try to understand what they mean to each other. There's no character development or shocking revelations but I prefer this story over his 'Pierre et Jean' novel.
September 14, 2021
It is a really well written book. His description and writing style are great! I like how he developed the story and the characters, and it is thought provoking and interesting for discussion.
August 12, 2024
Sięgnęłam po książeczkę trochę nieświadomie i losowo, żeby mieć coś niezobowiązującego do czytania przed snem. Okazała się zbyt pięknie napisana żeby połowicznie tylko absorbować jej zawartość w sennej mgle. Uwielbiam styl pisania Sz.P. autora i z chęcią sięgnę po inne jego utwory! Dobór słów, finezja porównań i opisów, a przy tym wszystkim jakby lekki tego kicz- idealnie trafiają w mój gust!
Niezupełnie rozumiałam natomiast relacje między postaciami, przyczyny pewnych wydarzeń i zawiłości związane z the wondrous world of francuskie kurtyzany� Wiele spraw było dla mnie niestety niejasnych, pozostawionych przez autora w domyśle, którego się nie domyśliłam� Być może to kwestia 140 lat różnicy między mną a książeczką, lub po prostu podobnie jak tytułowa bohaterka żyję w „bezmyślnej i radosnej ufności szczęśliwego dziecka�.
Bardzo podobała mi się zwłaszcza druga połowa książki- zaczęto wtedy otwarcie mówić o faktycznym stanie rzeczy, co pozwoliło w końcu bliżej poznać bohaterów i ich położenie. Tak czy inaczej jest to krótka, ciekawa i myślę że przyjemna pozycja.
Niezupełnie rozumiałam natomiast relacje między postaciami, przyczyny pewnych wydarzeń i zawiłości związane z the wondrous world of francuskie kurtyzany� Wiele spraw było dla mnie niestety niejasnych, pozostawionych przez autora w domyśle, którego się nie domyśliłam� Być może to kwestia 140 lat różnicy między mną a książeczką, lub po prostu podobnie jak tytułowa bohaterka żyję w „bezmyślnej i radosnej ufności szczęśliwego dziecka�.
Bardzo podobała mi się zwłaszcza druga połowa książki- zaczęto wtedy otwarcie mówić o faktycznym stanie rzeczy, co pozwoliło w końcu bliżej poznać bohaterów i ich położenie. Tak czy inaczej jest to krótka, ciekawa i myślę że przyjemna pozycja.
November 4, 2013
Well it's nice to know that teenage girls haven't changed much since the writing of this book. They're dramatic, oblivious and quick to change their minds. I'm being facetious, but so is Guy de Maupassant.
Yvette discovers that her mother is, well, an expensive prostitute. How she was oblivious to this fact when it was there in front of her for years I will never know. Upon this discovery she is appalled and ashamed. She pleads with her mother to change her ways and her mother just tells her that she is ungrateful as her occupation has allowed her to live a pretty lavish life. Unable to cope with this news and not wanting to follow in her mother's footsteps, Yvette decides to kill herself, with chloroform. While she was unsuccessful in killing herself she really enjoyed the high that the chloroform gave her and continued these "suicide attempts" to continue to trip out on chloroform until she passes out.
She ends up falling in love with a gentleman at the end, who doesn't really want to marry her but the chloroform seems to have made her calm down about her mother and likely her future.
Yvette discovers that her mother is, well, an expensive prostitute. How she was oblivious to this fact when it was there in front of her for years I will never know. Upon this discovery she is appalled and ashamed. She pleads with her mother to change her ways and her mother just tells her that she is ungrateful as her occupation has allowed her to live a pretty lavish life. Unable to cope with this news and not wanting to follow in her mother's footsteps, Yvette decides to kill herself, with chloroform. While she was unsuccessful in killing herself she really enjoyed the high that the chloroform gave her and continued these "suicide attempts" to continue to trip out on chloroform until she passes out.
She ends up falling in love with a gentleman at the end, who doesn't really want to marry her but the chloroform seems to have made her calm down about her mother and likely her future.
March 21, 2016
Kako mi je Yvette došla pod ruku? Vraćao sam Šolohova u gradsku, a na ulazu vrteća polica s natpisom ’vrhovi svjetske književnosti�. Tamo sam uz Joycea ugrabio i ovog Maupassanta nevelikog opsega. Nakon Chestertona koji mi je ipak razmjerno naporan, ovo mi je došlo kao šetnja parkom. Jednostavna, relativno trivijalna, ali dobrim dijelom solidno obrađena tema koja mi je, za razliku od autorova razvikanog Bel-Amija na prvu puno bolje sjela. (Očito imam topose u svojim osvrtima, kao što je ova zadnja rečenica.)
Dakle, odličan prvi zaplet. A onda... očekivan, krajnje razočaravajući “Veronika decides to die� drugi zaplet. Nadao sam se da će se fabula nekako iskobeljati iz tog fluxa, ali ne. Apsolutno razočaravajuća zadnja četvrtina te kraj novele. Šteta, jer osjetio sam neki potencijal.
Kao zaključak: po onome što sam do sad od njega vidio (sjećam se mizerne, nevjerojatno razvikane kratke priče Na vodi te spomenutog, grozomornog Bel-Amija), ne razumijem po čemu je Maupassant zaslužio mjesto na vrtećoj polici s početka. Evo 2 zvijezde da se uvrijeđeni Maupassant ne okreće toliko u grobu ovaj put.
Dakle, odličan prvi zaplet. A onda... očekivan, krajnje razočaravajući “Veronika decides to die� drugi zaplet. Nadao sam se da će se fabula nekako iskobeljati iz tog fluxa, ali ne. Apsolutno razočaravajuća zadnja četvrtina te kraj novele. Šteta, jer osjetio sam neki potencijal.
Kao zaključak: po onome što sam do sad od njega vidio (sjećam se mizerne, nevjerojatno razvikane kratke priče Na vodi te spomenutog, grozomornog Bel-Amija), ne razumijem po čemu je Maupassant zaslužio mjesto na vrtećoj polici s početka. Evo 2 zvijezde da se uvrijeđeni Maupassant ne okreće toliko u grobu ovaj put.
March 10, 2020
Podobno Guy de Maupassant słynie z kreowania interesujących kobiecych postaci. Mam wrażenie, że w tej książce nie do końca mu to wyszło.
Nasza główna bohaterka jest bowiem zarazem wygadana, bystra i inteligenta, ale także naiwna i niespostrzegawcza. Niestety dodając fakt, że jest ona córką francuskiej kurtyzany, która już od małego obraca się w tym świecie i uczestniczy w spotkaniach, balach, obiadkach, to nie chce mi się wierzyć, że nie pojęła wcześniej, czym zajmuje się jej matka. Kiedy dochodzi do niej cała prawda, jej świat po prostu się wali.
Do czego doprowadzi świadomość, że jej przyszłość również może opierać się na podobnych wartościach? Jak zakończy się historia córki kurtyzany, która nie jest nawet pewna tego, czy jest zakochana w jednym z mężczyzn przychodzących do jej domu?
Gdyby nie naiwność tej pozycji, to całą historię mogłabym uznać za bardzo dobrą. Autor na tych kilkuset stronach opisał zamknięty świat francuskich kurtyzan, tak hermetyczne środowisko rządzące się swoimi prawami. Poza tym język tej powieści był naprawdę dobry. Miałam wrażenie, że nie ma w tej opowieści żadnych zbędnych słów a to się ceni.
Nasza główna bohaterka jest bowiem zarazem wygadana, bystra i inteligenta, ale także naiwna i niespostrzegawcza. Niestety dodając fakt, że jest ona córką francuskiej kurtyzany, która już od małego obraca się w tym świecie i uczestniczy w spotkaniach, balach, obiadkach, to nie chce mi się wierzyć, że nie pojęła wcześniej, czym zajmuje się jej matka. Kiedy dochodzi do niej cała prawda, jej świat po prostu się wali.
Do czego doprowadzi świadomość, że jej przyszłość również może opierać się na podobnych wartościach? Jak zakończy się historia córki kurtyzany, która nie jest nawet pewna tego, czy jest zakochana w jednym z mężczyzn przychodzących do jej domu?
Gdyby nie naiwność tej pozycji, to całą historię mogłabym uznać za bardzo dobrą. Autor na tych kilkuset stronach opisał zamknięty świat francuskich kurtyzan, tak hermetyczne środowisko rządzące się swoimi prawami. Poza tym język tej powieści był naprawdę dobry. Miałam wrażenie, że nie ma w tej opowieści żadnych zbędnych słów a to się ceni.
February 18, 2018
Yvette, belle diablesse et héroïne au tempérament fougueux... Un petit bijoux. Maupassant, je suis ivre de tes mots !
"Yvette avait des ailes maintenant. Elle volait, la nuit, par une belle nuit claire, au-dessus des bois et des fleuves. Elle volait avec délices, ouvrant avec les ailes, battant des ailes, portée par le vent comme portée par des caresses."
"Yvette avait des ailes maintenant. Elle volait, la nuit, par une belle nuit claire, au-dessus des bois et des fleuves. Elle volait avec délices, ouvrant avec les ailes, battant des ailes, portée par le vent comme portée par des caresses."
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January 24, 2025بعد دیدن نظرات مثبت این کتاب فقط یه چیز رو فهمیدم:
موپاسانزد� شدم.
هنوز دو کتاب از داستانها� کوتاه موپاسان مونده، اما فکر کنم باید ازش فاصله بگیرم. (خصوصاً منی که داستان کوتاه آنچنان موردِعلاقه� نیست...)
داستان ایوت برام جذابیتی نداشت. فضاش رو دوست داشتم، شخصیتپرداز� سروینی برام جالب بود، امااااا
نه خود داستان برام قابلفه� بود، نه شخصیت اصلی.
هرچند از حق نگ��ریم، آخرای کتاب (ده صفحه� آخر) واقعاً جالب بود، اما اینْ ۹۰ صفحه� اول رو جبران نمیکن�.
در کل ارتباط نگرفتم... حالا باز نمیدون� واقعاً ارتباط نگرفتم یا این نتیجه� یه مدت طولانی آثار موپاسان خوندنه.
موپاسانزد� شدم.
هنوز دو کتاب از داستانها� کوتاه موپاسان مونده، اما فکر کنم باید ازش فاصله بگیرم. (خصوصاً منی که داستان کوتاه آنچنان موردِعلاقه� نیست...)
داستان ایوت برام جذابیتی نداشت. فضاش رو دوست داشتم، شخصیتپرداز� سروینی برام جالب بود، امااااا
نه خود داستان برام قابلفه� بود، نه شخصیت اصلی.
هرچند از حق نگ��ریم، آخرای کتاب (ده صفحه� آخر) واقعاً جالب بود، اما اینْ ۹۰ صفحه� اول رو جبران نمیکن�.
در کل ارتباط نگرفتم... حالا باز نمیدون� واقعاً ارتباط نگرفتم یا این نتیجه� یه مدت طولانی آثار موپاسان خوندنه.
August 2, 2019
I finished it in one day. I love his books so much. Yvette a girl who does not approve her mother's lifestyle. She prefers to go far away and start all over again. She does not want to follow her mother's footsteps. It is worth reading this short story.
September 26, 2015
Guy de Maupassant is a master of perfect description. That's why I'm never bored reading his books.
May 19, 2019
So-so. He's certainly written better.
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March 14, 2018I did not expect to enjoy this, but I enjoyed this a whole bunch.
October 22, 2022
Guy de Maupassant's "Yvette" is one of his longer short stories and is one of my favorite. "Yvette" shows how hard it can be to change our destiny, it can be accomplished but sometimes it is an upward battle. I was hoping the ending was different but it would not be a Maupassant story. He shows the reality of the Parisian of his times.
Story in short- A young lady finds out about her mother's life and how it effects her own life.
When I read the passage below, I was thinking when I was very young and my sentiments was hers "she did not know how she could disappear without the whole earth being blotted out, so much it seemed to her that she was a part of everything, of the fields, of the air, of the sunshine, of life itself." I now look at this as so ridiculous but at a time, I truly could not comprehend that I could die and the world goes on without me. Yet I was no delusional but it just seemed wrong, though I know it was so.
"How pretty I am!� she thought. “Tomorrow I shall be dead, there, upon my bed.� She looked at her bed, and seemed to see herself stretched out, white as the sheets. Dead! In a week she would be nothing but dust, to dust returned! A horrible anguish oppressed her heart. The bright sunlight fell in floods upon the fields, and the soft morning air came in at the window. She sat down thinking of it. Death! It was as if the world was going to disappear from her; but no,
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since nothing would be changed in the world, not even her bedroom. Yes, her room would remain just the same, with the same bed, the same chairs, the same toilette articles, but she would be forever gone, and no one would be sorry, except her mother, perhaps. People would say: “How pretty she was! that little Yvette,� and nothing more. And as she looked at her arm leaning on the arm of her chair, she thought again, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. And again a great shudder of horror ran over her whole
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body, and she did not know how she could disappear without the whole earth being blotted out, so much it seemed to her that she was a part of everything, of the fields, of the air, of the sunshine, of life itself."
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As they were leaving the Cafe Riche, Jean de Servigny said to Leon Saval: “If you don’t object, let us walk. The weather is too fine to take a cab.� His friend answered: “I would like nothing better.�
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The two friends walked with slow steps, cigars in their mouths, in evening dress and overcoats on their arms, with a flower in their buttonholes, and their hats a trifle on one side, as men will carelessly
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wear them sometimes, after they have dined well and the air is mild. They had been linked together since their college days by a close, devoted, and firm affection. Jean de Servigny, small, slender, a trifle bald, rather frail, with elegance of mien, curled mustache, bright eyes, and fine lips, was a man who seemed born and bred upon the boulevard. He was tireless in spite of his languid air, strong in spite of his pallor, one of those slight Parisians to whom gymnastic exercise, fencing, cold shower and hot baths
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give a nervous, artificial strength. He was known by his marriage as well as by his wit, his fortune, his connections, and by that sociability, amiability, and fashionable gallantry peculiar to certain men. A true Parisian, furthermore, light, sceptical, changeable, captivating, energetic, and irresolute, capable of everything and of nothing; selfish by principle and generous on occasion, he lived moderately upon his income, and amused himself with hygiene. Indifferent and passionate, he gave himself rein and
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drew back constantly, impelled by conflicting instincts, yielding to all, and then obeying, in the end, his own shrewd man-about-town judgment, whose weather-vane logic consisted in following the wind and drawing profit from circumstances without taking the trouble to originate them. His companion, Leon Saval, rich also, was one of those superb and colossal figures who make women turn around in the streets to look at them. He gave the idea of a statue turned into a man, a type of a race,
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Jean de Servigny has brought Leon Saval to visit Marquise Obardi. The Marquise has many lover and has fallen in love with Saval. Servigny cannot figure out Yvette, he sometimes thinks she is truly innocent and other times she is fooling him, trying to trap him. The Marquise invites both men over to her country home and Servigny has been following Yvette around. He proclaims his love and she tells him to ask mama about marrying her. He tells her he will never marry her but he loves her. Yvette doesn't know her mother is a kept woman and has no idea about sex, so when she tells her mother that Servigny says he wants to marry her, her mother tells her impossible and an upset Yvette looks to find what her mother and Saval do together. After she finds out she tells her mother that they should go to live a quiet life in the country. The Marquise tells her daughter it is impossible. Yvette wishes death instead of being kept trying to kill herself and doesn't tell anyone. She buys chloroform from many different places and after a merry day, which she truly feels far from happy around her mother's lovers, she starts to drug herself. The mother loves her daughter but cannot change and doesn't know what to do with her daughter's future, she had never told her daughter about her illicit affairs. When Yvette does not answer, her mother starts to worry and finally Servigny finds a way to her room and he sees Yvette unconscious. He also sees Yvette's note which he takes so her mother will not see it. He finally sees the truth that a Yvette is innocent but still marriage is not possible. While Yvette is drugged she becomes calm and wants to live, so the last dose she refuses and Servigny shows his concern. She is ready for love and when she awakens and sees Servigny, she tells him about wanting love and to be good to her. She will be his lover and he declares his love for her. He will not marry her but he really does care for her now. I was happy about the ending because I did not want Yvette to die but yet I was disappointed that Servigny not marrying her!
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like those sculptured forms which are sent to the Salons. Too handsome, too tall, too big, too strong, he sinned a little from the excess of everything, the excess of his qualities. He had on hand countless affairs of passion. As they reached the Vaudeville theater, he asked: “Have you warned that lady that you are going to take me to her house to see her?� Servigny began to laugh: “Forewarn the Marquise Obardi! Do you warn an omnibus driver that you
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shall enter his stage at the corner of the boulevard?� Saval, a little perplexed, inquired: “What sort of person is this lady?� His friend replied: “An upstart, a charming hussy, who came from no one knows where, who made her appearance one day, nobody knows how, among the adventuresses of Paris, knowing perfectly well how to take care of herself. Besides, what difference does it make to us? They say that her real name, her maiden name � for she still has every claim to the title of maiden except that
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of innocence � is Octavia Bardin, from which she constructs the name Obardi by prefixing the first letter of her first name and dropping the last letter of the last name.� “Moreover, she is a lovable woman, and you, from your physique, are inevitably bound to become her lover. Hercules is not introduced into Messalina’s home without making some disturbance. Nevertheless I make bold to add that if there is free entrance to this house, just as there is in bazaars, you are not exactly compelled to
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buy what is for sale. Love and cards are on the programme, but nobody compels you to take up with either. And the exit is as free as the entrance.� “She settled down in the Etoile district, a suspicious neighborhood, three years ago, and opened her drawing-room to that froth of the continents which comes to Paris to practice its various formidable and criminal talents.� “I don’t remember just how I went to her house. I went as we all go, because there is card playing, because
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the women are compliant, and the men dishonest. I love that social mob of buccaneers with decorations of all sorts of orders, all titled, and all entirely unknown at their embassies, except to the spies. They are always dragging in the subject of honor, quoting the list of their ancestors on the slightest provocation, and telling the story of their life at every opportunity, braggarts, liars, sharpers, dangerous as their cards, false as their names, brave because they have to be, like the assassins who can not pluck their victims except by exposing their own lives. In a word, it is the aristocracy of the bagnio.� “I like them. They are interesting to fathom and to know, amusing to listen to, often witty, never commonplace as the ordinary French guests. Their women are always pretty, with a little flavor of foreign knavery, with the mystery of their past existence, half of which, perhaps, spent in a House of Correction. They generally have fine eyes and glorious hair, the true physique of the profession, an intoxicating
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grace, a seductiveness which drives men to folly, an unwholesome, irresistible charm! They conquer like the highwaymen of old. They are rapacious creatures; true birds of prey. I like them, too.� “The Marquise Obardi is one of the type of these elegant good-for-nothings. Ripe and pretty, with a feline charm, you can see that she is vicious to the marrow. Everybody has a good time at her house, with cards, dancing, and suppers; in fact there is everything which goes to
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make up the pleasures of fashionable society life.� “Have you ever been or are you now her lover?� Leon Saval asked. “I have not been her lover, I am not now, and I never shall be. I only go to the house to see her daughter.� “Ah! She has a daughter, then?� “A daughter! A marvel, my dear man. She is the principal attraction of the den to-day. Tall, magnificent, just ripe, eighteen years old, as fair as her mother is dark, always merry, always ready for an entertainment, always laughing, and ready to dance
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like mad. Who will be the lucky man, to capture her, or who has already done so? Nobody can tell that. She has ten of us in her train, all hoping.� “Such a daughter in the hands of a woman like the Marquise is a fortune. And they play the game together, the two charmers. No one knows just what they are planning. Perhaps they are waiting for a better bargain than I should prove. But I tell you that I shall close the bargain if I ever get a chance.�
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“That girl Yvette absolutely baffles me, moreover. She is a mystery. If she is not the most complete monster of astuteness and perversity that I have ever seen, she certainly is the most marvelous phenomenon of innocence that can be imagined. She lives in that atmosphere of infamy with a calm and triumphing ease which is either wonderfully profligate or entirely artless. Strange scion of an adventuress, cast upon the muck-heap of that set, like a magnificent plant nurtured upon corruption, or rather like the daughter of some noble race, of some great artist, or of some grand lord, of some prince or dethroned king, tossed some evening into her mother’s arms, nobody can make out what she is nor what she thinks. But you are going to see her.� Saval began to laugh and said: “You are in love with her.� “No. I am on the list, which is not precisely the same thing. I will introduce you to my most serious rivals. But the chances are in my favor. I am in the lead, and some little distinction is shown to me.�
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“You are in love,� Saval repeated. “No. She disquiets me, seduces and disturbs me, attracts and frightens me away. I mistrust her as I would a trap, and I long for her as I long for a sherbet when I am thirsty. I yield to her charm, and I only approach her with the apprehension that I would feel concerning a man who was known to be a skillful thief. To her presence I have an irrational impulse toward belief in her possible purity and a very reasonable mistrust of her not less probable trickery. I feel myself
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in contact with an abnormal being, beyond the pale of natural laws, an exquisite or detestable creature � I don’t know which.� For the third time Saval said: “I tell you that you are in love. You speak of her with the magniloquence of a poet and the feeling of a troubadour. Come, search your heart, and confess.� Servigny walked a few steps without answering. Then he replied: “That is possible, after all. In any case, she fills my mind almost continually. Yes, perhaps I am in love. I
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dream about her too much. I think of her when I am asleep and when I awake � that is surely a grave indication. Her face follows me, accompanies me ceaselessly, ever before me, around me, with me. Is this love, this physical infatuation? Her features are so stamped upon my vision that I see her the moment I shut my eyes. My heart beats quickly every time I look at her, I don’t deny it.� “So I am in love with her, but in a queer fashion. I have the strongest desire for her, and yet the idea
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of making her my wife would seem to me a folly, a piece of stupidity, a monstrous thing: And I have a little fear of her, as well, the fear which a bird feels over which a hawk is hovering.� “And again I am jealous of her, jealous of all of which I am ignorant in her incomprehensible heart. I am always wondering: ‘Is she a charming youngster or a wretched jade?� She says things that would make an army shudder; but so does a parrot. She is at times so indiscreet and yet modest that I am forced to believe
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in her spotless purity, and again so incredibly artless that I must suspect that she has never been chaste. She allures me, excites me, like a woman of a certain category, and at the same time acts like an impeccable virgin. She seems to love me and yet makes fun of me; she deports herself in public as if she were my mistress and treats me in private as if I were her brother or footman.� “There are times when I fancy that she has as many lovers as her mother. And at other times I imagine that she suspects absolutely nothing of that sort of life, you understand. Furthermore, she is a great novel reader. I am at present, while awaiting something better, her book purveyor. She calls me her ‘librarian.� Every week the New Book Store sends her, on my orders, everything new that has appeared, and I believe that she reads everything at random. It must make a strange sort of mixture in her head.� “That kind of literary hasty-pudding accounts perhaps for some of the girl’s peculiar ways. When
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a young woman looks at existence through the medium of fifteen thousand novels, she must see it in a strange light, and construct queer ideas about matters and things in general. As for me, I am waiting. It is certain at any rate that I never have had for any other woman the devotion which I have had for her. And still it is quite certain that I shall never marry her. So if she has had numbers, I shall swell the number. And if she has not, I shall take the first ticket, just as I would do for a street car.�
Story in short- A young lady finds out about her mother's life and how it effects her own life.
When I read the passage below, I was thinking when I was very young and my sentiments was hers "she did not know how she could disappear without the whole earth being blotted out, so much it seemed to her that she was a part of everything, of the fields, of the air, of the sunshine, of life itself." I now look at this as so ridiculous but at a time, I truly could not comprehend that I could die and the world goes on without me. Yet I was no delusional but it just seemed wrong, though I know it was so.
"How pretty I am!� she thought. “Tomorrow I shall be dead, there, upon my bed.� She looked at her bed, and seemed to see herself stretched out, white as the sheets. Dead! In a week she would be nothing but dust, to dust returned! A horrible anguish oppressed her heart. The bright sunlight fell in floods upon the fields, and the soft morning air came in at the window. She sat down thinking of it. Death! It was as if the world was going to disappear from her; but no,
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since nothing would be changed in the world, not even her bedroom. Yes, her room would remain just the same, with the same bed, the same chairs, the same toilette articles, but she would be forever gone, and no one would be sorry, except her mother, perhaps. People would say: “How pretty she was! that little Yvette,� and nothing more. And as she looked at her arm leaning on the arm of her chair, she thought again, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. And again a great shudder of horror ran over her whole
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body, and she did not know how she could disappear without the whole earth being blotted out, so much it seemed to her that she was a part of everything, of the fields, of the air, of the sunshine, of life itself."
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As they were leaving the Cafe Riche, Jean de Servigny said to Leon Saval: “If you don’t object, let us walk. The weather is too fine to take a cab.� His friend answered: “I would like nothing better.�
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The two friends walked with slow steps, cigars in their mouths, in evening dress and overcoats on their arms, with a flower in their buttonholes, and their hats a trifle on one side, as men will carelessly
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wear them sometimes, after they have dined well and the air is mild. They had been linked together since their college days by a close, devoted, and firm affection. Jean de Servigny, small, slender, a trifle bald, rather frail, with elegance of mien, curled mustache, bright eyes, and fine lips, was a man who seemed born and bred upon the boulevard. He was tireless in spite of his languid air, strong in spite of his pallor, one of those slight Parisians to whom gymnastic exercise, fencing, cold shower and hot baths
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give a nervous, artificial strength. He was known by his marriage as well as by his wit, his fortune, his connections, and by that sociability, amiability, and fashionable gallantry peculiar to certain men. A true Parisian, furthermore, light, sceptical, changeable, captivating, energetic, and irresolute, capable of everything and of nothing; selfish by principle and generous on occasion, he lived moderately upon his income, and amused himself with hygiene. Indifferent and passionate, he gave himself rein and
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drew back constantly, impelled by conflicting instincts, yielding to all, and then obeying, in the end, his own shrewd man-about-town judgment, whose weather-vane logic consisted in following the wind and drawing profit from circumstances without taking the trouble to originate them. His companion, Leon Saval, rich also, was one of those superb and colossal figures who make women turn around in the streets to look at them. He gave the idea of a statue turned into a man, a type of a race,
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Jean de Servigny has brought Leon Saval to visit Marquise Obardi. The Marquise has many lover and has fallen in love with Saval. Servigny cannot figure out Yvette, he sometimes thinks she is truly innocent and other times she is fooling him, trying to trap him. The Marquise invites both men over to her country home and Servigny has been following Yvette around. He proclaims his love and she tells him to ask mama about marrying her. He tells her he will never marry her but he loves her. Yvette doesn't know her mother is a kept woman and has no idea about sex, so when she tells her mother that Servigny says he wants to marry her, her mother tells her impossible and an upset Yvette looks to find what her mother and Saval do together. After she finds out she tells her mother that they should go to live a quiet life in the country. The Marquise tells her daughter it is impossible. Yvette wishes death instead of being kept trying to kill herself and doesn't tell anyone. She buys chloroform from many different places and after a merry day, which she truly feels far from happy around her mother's lovers, she starts to drug herself. The mother loves her daughter but cannot change and doesn't know what to do with her daughter's future, she had never told her daughter about her illicit affairs. When Yvette does not answer, her mother starts to worry and finally Servigny finds a way to her room and he sees Yvette unconscious. He also sees Yvette's note which he takes so her mother will not see it. He finally sees the truth that a Yvette is innocent but still marriage is not possible. While Yvette is drugged she becomes calm and wants to live, so the last dose she refuses and Servigny shows his concern. She is ready for love and when she awakens and sees Servigny, she tells him about wanting love and to be good to her. She will be his lover and he declares his love for her. He will not marry her but he really does care for her now. I was happy about the ending because I did not want Yvette to die but yet I was disappointed that Servigny not marrying her!
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like those sculptured forms which are sent to the Salons. Too handsome, too tall, too big, too strong, he sinned a little from the excess of everything, the excess of his qualities. He had on hand countless affairs of passion. As they reached the Vaudeville theater, he asked: “Have you warned that lady that you are going to take me to her house to see her?� Servigny began to laugh: “Forewarn the Marquise Obardi! Do you warn an omnibus driver that you
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shall enter his stage at the corner of the boulevard?� Saval, a little perplexed, inquired: “What sort of person is this lady?� His friend replied: “An upstart, a charming hussy, who came from no one knows where, who made her appearance one day, nobody knows how, among the adventuresses of Paris, knowing perfectly well how to take care of herself. Besides, what difference does it make to us? They say that her real name, her maiden name � for she still has every claim to the title of maiden except that
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of innocence � is Octavia Bardin, from which she constructs the name Obardi by prefixing the first letter of her first name and dropping the last letter of the last name.� “Moreover, she is a lovable woman, and you, from your physique, are inevitably bound to become her lover. Hercules is not introduced into Messalina’s home without making some disturbance. Nevertheless I make bold to add that if there is free entrance to this house, just as there is in bazaars, you are not exactly compelled to
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buy what is for sale. Love and cards are on the programme, but nobody compels you to take up with either. And the exit is as free as the entrance.� “She settled down in the Etoile district, a suspicious neighborhood, three years ago, and opened her drawing-room to that froth of the continents which comes to Paris to practice its various formidable and criminal talents.� “I don’t remember just how I went to her house. I went as we all go, because there is card playing, because
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the women are compliant, and the men dishonest. I love that social mob of buccaneers with decorations of all sorts of orders, all titled, and all entirely unknown at their embassies, except to the spies. They are always dragging in the subject of honor, quoting the list of their ancestors on the slightest provocation, and telling the story of their life at every opportunity, braggarts, liars, sharpers, dangerous as their cards, false as their names, brave because they have to be, like the assassins who can not pluck their victims except by exposing their own lives. In a word, it is the aristocracy of the bagnio.� “I like them. They are interesting to fathom and to know, amusing to listen to, often witty, never commonplace as the ordinary French guests. Their women are always pretty, with a little flavor of foreign knavery, with the mystery of their past existence, half of which, perhaps, spent in a House of Correction. They generally have fine eyes and glorious hair, the true physique of the profession, an intoxicating
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grace, a seductiveness which drives men to folly, an unwholesome, irresistible charm! They conquer like the highwaymen of old. They are rapacious creatures; true birds of prey. I like them, too.� “The Marquise Obardi is one of the type of these elegant good-for-nothings. Ripe and pretty, with a feline charm, you can see that she is vicious to the marrow. Everybody has a good time at her house, with cards, dancing, and suppers; in fact there is everything which goes to
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make up the pleasures of fashionable society life.� “Have you ever been or are you now her lover?� Leon Saval asked. “I have not been her lover, I am not now, and I never shall be. I only go to the house to see her daughter.� “Ah! She has a daughter, then?� “A daughter! A marvel, my dear man. She is the principal attraction of the den to-day. Tall, magnificent, just ripe, eighteen years old, as fair as her mother is dark, always merry, always ready for an entertainment, always laughing, and ready to dance
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like mad. Who will be the lucky man, to capture her, or who has already done so? Nobody can tell that. She has ten of us in her train, all hoping.� “Such a daughter in the hands of a woman like the Marquise is a fortune. And they play the game together, the two charmers. No one knows just what they are planning. Perhaps they are waiting for a better bargain than I should prove. But I tell you that I shall close the bargain if I ever get a chance.�
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“That girl Yvette absolutely baffles me, moreover. She is a mystery. If she is not the most complete monster of astuteness and perversity that I have ever seen, she certainly is the most marvelous phenomenon of innocence that can be imagined. She lives in that atmosphere of infamy with a calm and triumphing ease which is either wonderfully profligate or entirely artless. Strange scion of an adventuress, cast upon the muck-heap of that set, like a magnificent plant nurtured upon corruption, or rather like the daughter of some noble race, of some great artist, or of some grand lord, of some prince or dethroned king, tossed some evening into her mother’s arms, nobody can make out what she is nor what she thinks. But you are going to see her.� Saval began to laugh and said: “You are in love with her.� “No. I am on the list, which is not precisely the same thing. I will introduce you to my most serious rivals. But the chances are in my favor. I am in the lead, and some little distinction is shown to me.�
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“You are in love,� Saval repeated. “No. She disquiets me, seduces and disturbs me, attracts and frightens me away. I mistrust her as I would a trap, and I long for her as I long for a sherbet when I am thirsty. I yield to her charm, and I only approach her with the apprehension that I would feel concerning a man who was known to be a skillful thief. To her presence I have an irrational impulse toward belief in her possible purity and a very reasonable mistrust of her not less probable trickery. I feel myself
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in contact with an abnormal being, beyond the pale of natural laws, an exquisite or detestable creature � I don’t know which.� For the third time Saval said: “I tell you that you are in love. You speak of her with the magniloquence of a poet and the feeling of a troubadour. Come, search your heart, and confess.� Servigny walked a few steps without answering. Then he replied: “That is possible, after all. In any case, she fills my mind almost continually. Yes, perhaps I am in love. I
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dream about her too much. I think of her when I am asleep and when I awake � that is surely a grave indication. Her face follows me, accompanies me ceaselessly, ever before me, around me, with me. Is this love, this physical infatuation? Her features are so stamped upon my vision that I see her the moment I shut my eyes. My heart beats quickly every time I look at her, I don’t deny it.� “So I am in love with her, but in a queer fashion. I have the strongest desire for her, and yet the idea
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of making her my wife would seem to me a folly, a piece of stupidity, a monstrous thing: And I have a little fear of her, as well, the fear which a bird feels over which a hawk is hovering.� “And again I am jealous of her, jealous of all of which I am ignorant in her incomprehensible heart. I am always wondering: ‘Is she a charming youngster or a wretched jade?� She says things that would make an army shudder; but so does a parrot. She is at times so indiscreet and yet modest that I am forced to believe
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in her spotless purity, and again so incredibly artless that I must suspect that she has never been chaste. She allures me, excites me, like a woman of a certain category, and at the same time acts like an impeccable virgin. She seems to love me and yet makes fun of me; she deports herself in public as if she were my mistress and treats me in private as if I were her brother or footman.� “There are times when I fancy that she has as many lovers as her mother. And at other times I imagine that she suspects absolutely nothing of that sort of life, you understand. Furthermore, she is a great novel reader. I am at present, while awaiting something better, her book purveyor. She calls me her ‘librarian.� Every week the New Book Store sends her, on my orders, everything new that has appeared, and I believe that she reads everything at random. It must make a strange sort of mixture in her head.� “That kind of literary hasty-pudding accounts perhaps for some of the girl’s peculiar ways. When
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a young woman looks at existence through the medium of fifteen thousand novels, she must see it in a strange light, and construct queer ideas about matters and things in general. As for me, I am waiting. It is certain at any rate that I never have had for any other woman the devotion which I have had for her. And still it is quite certain that I shall never marry her. So if she has had numbers, I shall swell the number. And if she has not, I shall take the first ticket, just as I would do for a street car.�
February 17, 2019
Dear Yvette, she is a spoiled, coquettish teen enjoying the adoring society of the somewhat rakish men who fill her mother's parties. She soon has her eyes set on one gentleman in particular, and when her mother invites him and his friend on a trip, Yvette is happy and expecting a proposal. However, it is clear to everyone, but Yvette, that her mother is a high-paid courtesan; those rakish men being her clients, the trip to an area where those with infamous reputations visit, and Yvette's admirers are simply thinking "like mother, like daughter." So, out on a stroll, Yvette's gentleman tries to proposition her, but she thinks this more of a vague marriage proposal. Her mother tries to gently convince her this is not the case. Yvette convinces her gentleman to take her to a tavern to dance, even though she has been told to stay clear of this place. It's where she learns of her mother's profession and after spying on her, Yvette has confirmation. She confronts her mother, pleading to end her shameful work. However, the mother responds with: "I like what I do and it gives us a good life, so be quiet." Yvette then decides she is going to commit suicide, with chloroform. However, all it does is make her high, so she keeps taking hits, until one day it goes wrong.
January 4, 2017
Re-read after two and a half years. Boy, my opinion on this book changed so much.
I think that, at that time, I was too young to properly understand this story and enjoy it. Now I finished it in one day and enjoyed every single detail of it.
I could understand Yvette now as I know more about that period than I knew back in 2014, but I also understood what Maupassant was trying to do with her entire stroy. Or at least I hope I do.
If you're into realism and naturalism, I recommend this novel. It's short and fast read and leaves a bittersweet feeling when it's over.
I think that, at that time, I was too young to properly understand this story and enjoy it. Now I finished it in one day and enjoyed every single detail of it.
I could understand Yvette now as I know more about that period than I knew back in 2014, but I also understood what Maupassant was trying to do with her entire stroy. Or at least I hope I do.
If you're into realism and naturalism, I recommend this novel. It's short and fast read and leaves a bittersweet feeling when it's over.
September 4, 2011
Maybe I was not in the appropriate mood for reading it, but Yvette truly annoyed me. The main character Yvette, realizing that she will have the same faith as her mother - a courtesan- decides to take her life.In the end she falls in the hands of Jean de Servigny who fell in love with her.
July 29, 2012
Kort en makkelijk verhaaltje, dat me deed denken aan de korte verhaaltjes die je op de middelbare school bij Franse les moest lezen. Simpel, makkelijk en goed leesbaar. Interessent verhaal, met weinig diepgang. Ik had constant het gevoel iets te 'missen' qua omschrijving van details.
August 6, 2011
On se délecte de la naïveté et des grands sentiments d'Yvette dans la nouvelle éponyme. Les autres nouvelles du recueil sont moins intéressantes, dommage.
February 11, 2013
L'amour sauveur
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October 11, 2015
للروايات الكلاسيكه سحر خاص
August 16, 2018
� aneb Prozření naivky
May 11, 2024
je suis simplement fan de Maupassant. son style, sa description de l'entourage, comment il développe ses personnages, c'est indéniablement beau
September 28, 2024
ایوت ،
اولین اثری که از گی دو مو پاسان خوندم (انتشارات مهراندیش)
داستان گیرا و فضای زیبایی که نویسنده ساخته بود برام خیلی خیلی جالب بود و روحم رو جلا میداد 🤌🏻🥰
سه تا داستان کوتاه دیگه ( بازگشت ،رها شده و شب عید ) هم فوق العاده جذاب و به یاد موندنی بودن با اینکه کمتر از ده صفحه میشدن .
در کل با خوندن این کتاب ترغیب شدم از آثار دیگه مو پاسان بخونم .
اولین اثری که از گی دو مو پاسان خوندم (انتشارات مهراندیش)
داستان گیرا و فضای زیبایی که نویسنده ساخته بود برام خیلی خیلی جالب بود و روحم رو جلا میداد 🤌🏻🥰
سه تا داستان کوتاه دیگه ( بازگشت ،رها شده و شب عید ) هم فوق العاده جذاب و به یاد موندنی بودن با اینکه کمتر از ده صفحه میشدن .
در کل با خوندن این کتاب ترغیب شدم از آثار دیگه مو پاسان بخونم .
March 25, 2025
Guy de Maupassant masterfully portrays human nature, often exposing hypocrisy, vanity, and social constraints. His prose is concise yet vivid, filled with precise details that bring characters and settings to life. Maupassant frequently explores themes of fate, illusion, and the harsh realities of life, making his stories both compelling and thought-provoking.
January 15, 2024
Prachtig. Ik had nog NL vertaling door Adriaan Morriën, Salamander van Querido gebonden 1957 uit de boekenkast van mijn ouders Bernard en Mitzi. Op deze schrijver geattendeerd door lezen van Vasili Grossman: hij en zijn literaire vriend ... waren weg van De Maupassant
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