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Une vie de Guy de Maupassant
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Une vie (original: 1883; edição: 1979)

de Guy de Maupassant

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`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) in which he sought to parody and expose thefolly of romantic illusion. An unflinching presentation of a woman's life of failure and disappointments, where fulfilment and happiness might have been expected, A Life recounts Jeanne de Lamare's gradual lapse into a state of disillusion.With its intricate network of parallels and oppositions, A Life reflects the influence of Flaubert in its attention to form and its coherent structure. It also expresses Maupassant's characteristic naturalistic vision in which the satire of bourgeois manners, the representation of the aristocracy inpathological decline, the undermining of human individuality and ideals, and the study of deterioration and disintegration, all play a role. But above all Maupassant brings to his first novel the short story writer's genius for a focused tension between stasis and change, and A Life is one of hismost compelling portraits of dispossession and powerlessness.… (mais)
Membro:kanichat
Título:Une vie
Autores:Guy de Maupassant
Informação:LGF - Livre de Poche (1979), Poche, 247 pages
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A Woman's Life de Guy de Maupassant (1883)

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This is an early work of naturalism, and is a personal rather than a political history. Through the life of one woman, we see life's pitfalls, and the unrelenting pessimism of life itself.

The novel begins as 17 year old Jeanne leaves the convent in which she has been educated to return to the family chateau high on a cliff overlooking the sea in Normandy. Contemplating her future, Jeanne can see no further than meeting the love of her life, marrying him, and living happily ever after. And in fact, within a few months of returning home Jeanne has met and married Julien, the man she thinks is her true love (Ha!). The happily ever after does not happen, however, and Jeanne's life thereafter is one disappointment and tragedy after another.

This seemed to me to be a book very much before its time. The scene of Jeanne's doting parents on her wedding night, with her father having to explain "the facts of life" to Jeanne because her mother was too embarrassed to do so, is both touching and humorous. And the depiction of Jeanne's sexual awakening was more frank than most novels of that day. One warning for sensitive readers: there is one scene of extreme animal cruelty involving a priest and a dog giving birth. It was hard to read, and may have reflected de Maupassant's disdain for the Church.

de Maupassant is known primarily for his short stories, but I've now read three of his novels and enjoyed each one very much. He is a writer into whose works I want to delve more deeply I highly recommend this book.

4 stars ( )
  arubabookwoman | Jan 30, 2024 |
Une vie was Guy de Maupassant's first long-form fiction/novel, and already it shows a great flair for realism and for heartbreaking clarity of vision that at its best rivals his own ideal, Gustave Flaubert. Une vie is a novel which in many respects resembles Madame Bovary, but whereas Emma in that novel at least lived a fairly turbulent and active life and managed to claim a kind of martyrdom for herself in the end, Jeanne in this tale is perhaps a much sadder figure for how one wrong decision sets her on a long train of sadness and despairs which crush her sensitive and sentimental soul under their hammer blows. Rather than flaring out, we see as the ennui and inability to forge an identity for herself separate from that of first her husband and then later her son constrain her world and turn a happy, hopeful young girl into an embittered woman, prematurely aged and utterly resigned to a kind of dark fatalism about her own chances in life. There is a note of hope in the end, a kind of authorial act of mercy which lifts the shadow a little but it's still an overwhelmingly sad tale and one that made me ponder how cruel the world is for dreamers and idealists. Do wish this was a little more psychologically detailed as Jeanne doesn't really develop very much as character and there's only hints with some of the underlying factors motivating her mindset but on the other hand the occasions where it does delve there are really excellent.

Otherwise of note: was surprised by how explicit this got in some of its depictions of sex/eroticism for a novel of its era and not just in an isolated passage here or there either.

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As a French reading experience, this went quite smoothly although still slowish for how detailed the prose becomes. Often lavish description is a big hindrance to me but when it's as well done as it is here I can't say I mind (and the constant implied analogies between the weather/seasons/countryside, always in vivid detail, and the life of our protagonist added a great deal). Still feel like I missed details here and there but there were parts where I felt I was gliding through with great fluency so progress nonetheless. ( )
  franderochefort | Aug 8, 2023 |
Une Vie, le premier roman de Maupassant, publié en 1883, deux ans avant le succès que sera [Bel-Ami], conte la vie de Jeanne, une petite aristocrate de province, depuis sa sortie du couvent jusqu’aux premières années de sa vieillesse. Jeanne est une jeune fille pure et pleine d’espoir. Elle voit la vie s’ouvrir devant elle, rêve d’amour et de mariage (ce qui est la même chose à ses yeux), image une vie de bonheurs simples et tranquilles. A part le grand amour (mais elle ne s’en rend pas compte), Jeanne ne demande rien d’extravagant, et pourtant sa vie ne semble être qu’une suite de déconvenues. Elle se marie vite (trop vite, le lecteur, surtout celui d’aujourd’hui, le sent bien), et une fois cela fait, il semble qu’il n’y ait plus rien à attendre de la vie : la seule décision importante, le seul véritable choix qu’elle devait faire est fait, il n’y a plus qu’à laisser le reste se dérouler, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire. Et pour Jeanne, ce sera plus souvent le pire, car elle n’ira finalement que de déceptions en déceptions, voyant ses espoirs et ses rêves s’évanouir un à un, et ses illusions s’envoler les unes après les autres.
Je m’attendais à un roman qui serait représentatif de ce qu’est la vie d’une femme de la petite aristocratie ou de la bourgeoisie provinciale cossue du XIXème siècle, mais Jeanne n’est pas tout à fait une femme comme les autres. Maupassant choisit de faire de son héroïne une femme trop pure, trop pétrie d’idéaux, une femme finalement incapable des compromissions de son temps, et par là incapable de s’insérer dans la société, une femme qui ne peut qu’être déçue par la trivialité des choses et par les petits accommodements qui permettent aux autres de vivre avec leur conscience et avec leurs semblables. Cela m’a peut-être un peu dérangée parce que le personnage de Jeanne en ressort moins crédible, elle est cette figure que la vie abîme et que le bonheur fuit, parce qu’elle n’est pas adaptée à ce qui l’entoure. Et cela donne un ton triste, voire mélancolique, à ce court roman. Il est sous-titré (d’un sous-titre qui s’est un peu perdu et que je ne connaissais pas avant de faire quelques recherches sur ce livre) « L’humble vérité ». La vérité de ce qu’est la vie pour de vrai, et je ne suis pas sûre que c’est le mot « humble » que j’aurais choisi, plutôt quelque chose autour de la notion de déception, je crois.
Et au cours de cette lecture, deux comparaisons se sont imposées. La première avec [Madame Bovary]. J’ai d’ailleurs tendance à confondre Maupassant et Flaubert, nos deux écrivains normands, et il est tentant de rapprocher Jeanne de Lamare d’Emma Bovary, son aînée de 26 ans (en terme d’année de publication). Toutes deux sont des jeunes femmes au seuil de leur vie d’adulte, pleines d’espérance et avide de ce qu’elles se pensent en droit d’attendre de la vie. Toutes deux, par des chemins différents, ne rencontreront que déceptions et espoirs déçus. Des parcours différents, deux visions de la même réalité. J’ai un petit faible pour Flaubert plutôt que pour Maupassant que je trouve toujours très froid et distant, très moqueur vis-à-vis de ses personnages, ce qui m’a fait ressentir d’autant plus une certaine pitié apitoyée pour cette femme complètement inadaptée aux réalités quotidiennes, ne vivant que de la déception de ses rêves trop tôt enfuis.
La deuxième comparaison qui m’est venue à l’esprit est d’ailleurs avec le roman suivant de Maupassant, [Bel-Ami], où là, ce mordant de Maupassant va comme un gant à l’arriviste qu’est Georges Duroy, qui à la différence de Jeanne sait on ne peut mieux utiliser les codes de la société pour s’y faire la place qu’il estime être sienne. Deux personnages que tout oppose, un grand écart social, qui peut-être met encore plus en relief la tristesse et la vacuité de la vie de Jeanne.
En conclusion, Maupassant n’est certes pas mon auteur préféré, et cette lecture m’a parfois fait grincer des dents, mais je suis contente d’avoir lu ce roman qui manquait à ma culture générale. Il m’a même donné envie, pourquoi pas, de relire [Bel-Ami] (lu dans mes années adolescentes, cela date…).
  raton-liseur | Dec 22, 2022 |
Some quotes to share:
"One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death."
"She was dead. They would nail her down in a coffin and bury it--that would be the end; she would never be seen again. Was it possible? How could it be? Would she never have a mother again? This beloved familiar face, seen as soon as she had opened her eyes, loved as soon as she had opened her arms, the outlet for her affection, this unique being, a mother, more important to the heart than all the rest of the world, was gone."
"... he reacted sharply against the Catholic image of a god with middle class ideas, The temper of a Jesuit, and the tyrant's desire for vengeance. In his eyes such a god dwarfed the dimly understood mystery of creation, decreed by Fate, limitless, all-powerful, the creation of Life, light, the Earth, thought, plants, rocks, man, the air, animals, Stars, God, and insect life alike."
"... exasperated her more and more against the dastardly behavior of man, who is the slave of all the beastial practices of the fleshly lusts, which corrupt the heart as well as the body. Human nature itself seemed to her obscene, when she thought of all the filthy secrets of sensuality, the degrading carresses, all the mysterious connections that cannot be broken off, at which she guessed."

What a very sad story. A tale for young women who think they are"in love," get married in haste, and repent at a snail's pace. Jeanne is a young French woman who does just that, only to find out that her"dashing," broke, Noble of a husband is a mujeriego, a tightwad, and just an all-around pendejo. Nevertheless, she conceives a son, who is her sole joy. Not knowing any better (I guess), she spoils him mercilessly, so, of course, he grows up to be an ingrate, thinking the world owes him. The great characterizations are all that brings these French people from the early 19th century to life, and I was very involved in this short work. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
A superficially gentle little novel about the life of a naive young girl with a privileged background and indulgent parents, who finds herself having to deal with an unsatisfactory husband and a wayward son, both of whom give her more than what she considers her fair share of unhappiness.

Jeanne's maid and foster-sister, Rosalie, however, is usually on hand to remind her that people who have never had to work for their living don't know what suffering means. Maupassant sneaks in some fairly harsh social criticism and some interesting Normandy local colour, but the overall tone is a kind of romantic pessimism with a lot of weather and some Thomas-Hardy-ish moments of melodrama (watch out for that shepherd's caravan!).

Fun, but probably not Maupassant's finest hour. ( )
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`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) in which he sought to parody and expose thefolly of romantic illusion. An unflinching presentation of a woman's life of failure and disappointments, where fulfilment and happiness might have been expected, A Life recounts Jeanne de Lamare's gradual lapse into a state of disillusion.With its intricate network of parallels and oppositions, A Life reflects the influence of Flaubert in its attention to form and its coherent structure. It also expresses Maupassant's characteristic naturalistic vision in which the satire of bourgeois manners, the representation of the aristocracy inpathological decline, the undermining of human individuality and ideals, and the study of deterioration and disintegration, all play a role. But above all Maupassant brings to his first novel the short story writer's genius for a focused tension between stasis and change, and A Life is one of hismost compelling portraits of dispossession and powerlessness.

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