Alien Hearts (New York Review Books Classics)

Alien Hearts (New York Review Books Classics)

Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. AndrÃ© Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a glacially dazzling beauty, wants Mariolle to attend her exclusive salon for artists, composers, writers, and other intellectuals. At first Mariolle keeps his distance, but then he hits on the solution to all his problems: caring for nothing in particular, he will devote himself to being in love; Madame de Burne will be his everything. Soon lover and beloved are equally lost within a hall of mirrors of their common devising.

Richard Howardâ€™s new English translation of this complex and brooding novelâ€”the first in more than a hundred yearsâ€”reveals the final, unexpected flowering of a great French realistâ€™s art.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590172605
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2009-12-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590172605

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