Résultats pour "Guy de Maupassant" dans Psychologique

Amid the serene beauty of the French countryside, a man begins to feel the unraveling threads of his mind. An unseen presence—a shadow, a whisper—lurks in his tranquil home, bringing with it dread, madness, and questions too terrifying to answer. Is it merely his imagination, or has something unimaginable crossed into his world? With his sanity teetering on the edge, he must confront an entity that defies comprehension and challenges humanity's place in the universe.

En ¿Quién sabe? de Maupassant, el personaje principal nos conduce por un camino que quizás esconde su propia condición. Un camino de unos cuantos privilegiados. El camino de la locura. Este escalofriante relato forma parte de una serie de cuentos que Maupassant dedicó al tema de la locura.

Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin. These three names thrill the literary world as well as our own. They have gravitas, they have knowledge, experience and they have the literary style and panache to seduce our imagined world. Each has written a short story on pleasured lips placed on another’s flesh. For Chekhov it was a kiss in a darkened room that happened by mistake. Who was she? For Chopin it was a kiss that almost derailed a hoped-for marriage proposal. Why did he do that? For de Maupassant it was a niece seeking advice from her Aunt on when to kiss and whom. And did she?

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.

A gentleman enjoying the morning over the River Seine waves to a steamer, and the nightmare begins. He believes he may be going insane, but then he begins to feel there is an entity that he cannot see invading his mind and his home. The entity is perhaps an invader from another world. Guy de Maupassant's tale of classic horror will enthrall you.

Diario di un Magistrato di Guy de Maupassant, è tratto da "Le Horla e altri racconti", una raccolta di romanzi brevi che visitano gli aspetti più inquietanti della...

"Dans la banlieue de Paris vivait une famille de bourgeois riches. Ils habitaient une élégante villa au milieu d'un parc, au bord de la Seine. Le cocher était ce François, gars de campagne, un peu lourdaud, bon cœur, niais, facile à duper. Comme il rentrait un soir chez ses maîtres, un chien se mit à le suivre. Il n'y prit point garde d'abord ; mais l'obstination de la bête à marcher sur ses talons le fit bientôt se retourner. Il regarda s'il connaissait ce chien. Non, il ne l'avait jamais vu. C'était une chienne d'une maigreur affreuse, avec de grandes mamelles pendantes."

This is a story from the "Great Ghost Stories" collection.

Maupassant fue admirador y amigo de Gustave Flaubert al que conoció en 1867. Flaubert lo tomó bajo su protección, le abrió la puerta de algunos periódicos y le presentó a Iván Turgueniev y Émile Zola. El escritor viajó a París tras la derrota francesa en la Guerra Franco-Prusiana de 1870 y trabajó como funcionario en varios ministerios, hasta que publicó en 1880 su primera gran obra, Bola de Sebo. Esta publicación permite a Maupassant adquirir notoriedad en el mundillo literario.

"Amo la noche con pasión. La amo como uno ama a su país o a su amante, con un amor instintivo, profundo, invencible...". Así comienza Maupassant su agitado paseo nocturno por los bulevares de París, que Toño Benavides iluminará para seguir al protagonista sin nombre de este fantástico relato, uno de los mejores de su autor.

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is of the best "macabre" tales ever written. It is presented here in its entirety along with eight other incredible tales.