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Guy De Maupassant
Geburtstag: 5. August 1850
Todesdatum: 6. Juli 1893
Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant [gidəmopɑˈsã] war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Maupassant gilt neben Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert und Zola als einer der großen französischen Erzähler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Er ist auch einer der am häufigsten verfilmten Autoren. Wikipedia
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„Diese Liebe ist etwas unwiderstehliches, zerstörerisches geworden, stärker als der Tod.“
— Guy De Maupassant, buch Like Death
Stark wie der Tod (Fort comme la mort), Teil 2, Kap. VI, vgl. gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/stark-wie-der-tod-2516/1 - Nach der Bibel, Hohelied 8,6: "Denn Liebe ist stark wie der Tod und Leidenschaft unwiderstehlich wie das Totenreich."
(Original frz.: cet amour est devenu quelque chose d'irrésistible, de destructeur, de plus fort que la mort.) maupassant.free.fr http://maupassant.free.fr/fort/fortc.htm
„Ein erlaubter Kuss ist niemals soviel wert wie ein gestohlener.“
— Guy De Maupassant, buch Confessions d'une femme
Die Beichte einer Frau (Confessions d'une femme) in Vater Milon und andere Erzählungen (Le père Milon) , vgl. gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/vater-milon-und-andere-erzahlungen-2528/13
(Original frz.: Un baiser légal ne vaut jamais un baiser volé.) maupassant.free.fr http://maupassant.free.fr/textes/confess4.html
„Ich glaube, daß durch das Gefühl dem Geist einer Frau alles offenbar wird, nur bleibt es oft nicht darin haften.“
— Guy De Maupassant, buch Unser Herz
Unser einsames Herz (Notre cœur), 1. Teil, Kap. I gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/unser-herz-2533/1
(Original frz.: Je crois que le sentiment […] peut faire tout entrer dans l'esprit d'une femme ; seulement ça n'y reste pas souvent.) maupassant.free.fr http://maupassant.free.fr/coeur/coeurc.htm
„Ich kann nicht mehr wollen, aber jemand will für mich und ich gehorche.“
— Guy De Maupassant, buch Der Horla
Der Horla (Le Horla), Version von 1887 gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/2518/1
(Original frz.: "Je ne peux plus vouloir ; mais quelqu'un veut pour moi ; et j'obéis.") maupassant.free.fr http://maupassant.free.fr/textes/horla2.html
„I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.“
As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090
„A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.“
"A Wife's Confession"
„The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.“
Quelle: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
„There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.“
"The Love of Long Ago"
Quelle: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Kontext: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
„The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.“
Variant translation:
She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished; and she let them make a match for her with a little clerk in the Department of Education.
La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)
Kontext: The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.
„The same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of man or of Nature are at the mercy of unreasoning, savage force.“
— Guy De Maupassant, buch Boule de Suif
Boule de Suif (1880)
Kontext: The same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of man or of Nature are at the mercy of unreasoning, savage force. The earthquake crushing a whole nation under falling roofs; the flood let loose, and engulfing in its swirling depths the corpses of drowned peasants, along with dead oxen and beams torn from shattered houses; or the army, covered with glory, murdering those who defend themselves, making prisoners of the rest, pillaging in the name of the Sword, and giving thanks to God to the thunder of cannon — all these are appalling scourges, which destroy all belief in eternal justice, all that confidence we have been taught to feel in the protection of Heaven and the reason of man.
„The anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of the enemy.“
— Guy De Maupassant, buch Boule de Suif
Boule de Suif (1880)
Kontext: Life seemed to have stopped short; the shops were shut, the streets deserted. Now and then an inhabitant, awed by the silence, glided swiftly by in the shadow of the walls. The anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of the enemy.
