Rereadings about Guy de Maupassant

Authors

  • Angela das Neves

Keywords:

Literatura francesa, Guy de Maupassant, Conto, Literatura comparada, Recepção

Abstract

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) has been published and republished in Brazil at least since 1884, and has been attracting different generations of readers as well as critics and writers. His short stories and novels are well known through adaptations presented through different means: theatre, music, comic books. They are object of re-readings and reinterpretation and are the main target of this study. It is the right moment to study the short stories by Guy de Maupassant and those by the Brazilian writers: Monteiro Lobato and Lima Barreto. Keywords: French Literature. Guy de Maupassant. Short story. Compared literature. Reception.

Published

30/10/2009

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Section

Artigos