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# Bel-Ami (Oxford World's Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Deliciously amoral picture of Paris
  

*by T***8 on Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2021*

I’ve been reading literature for nearly four decades, so it’s a thrill to find a dazzling new (to me) writer. While I’ve enjoyed several of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories, ‘Bel-Ami’ (1885) is the first time I’ve read one of his novels. It’s an amazing piece of work! First of all, Maupassant is a master in scene setting and characterization. In economical prose, he can sketch an entire room, street scene, or character with amazing vividness. In a few details, he conveys human interaction with a bracing sense of reality. His plot is sumptuous, naughty, and keeps you turning pages briskly. While Maupassant is collected in Decadent anthologies (and I chose to read him because of that), I can’t say he’s a Decadent. Sure, his protagonist Georges Duroy is a vicious scoundrel, and his amoral social-climbing in money-grubbing, sex-obsessed capitalist Paris certainly fits Decadent tropes. However, Maupassant conveys none of the lurid fin de siecle angst that fuels Decadent literature. He’s not glorifying Duroy nor condemning him. He's not passing judgement at all. Nor is there any of the social commentary to be found in Naturalists like Zola or sanctimonious do-gooders like Dickens. Maupassant's a Realist, and an extremely rewarding and entertaining one!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Scoundrel's Rise
  

*by B***) on Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2010*

This Oxford World Classic version of Maupassant's masterpiece, "Bel Ami", is a complete package of historic and social context, story and glossary.  The story itself has been well-reviewed by Amazon readers, so I will only briefly observe here a few salient features of the book that stood out for me.A handsome but amoral young man (Georges Duroy) who has been endowed with an extraordinary load of pheromones, comes to Paris after military service to make his fortune.  While not well educated or especially gifted with intellect, he is able to game the corrupt society of the time (circa 1884) using his looks and unfailing attraction for women of all ages and stations.  His career rise comes through his ruthless manipulation of successive women, who are mostly very willingly used by Duroy, to attain professional and social standing and money.  As this is a very pessimistic assessment of the French Third Republic by author Maupassant, the scoundrel not only wins in the end, but his nakedly open methods to gaining success are admired by the society that he is conquering.This well-translated classic story is accompanied in the Oxford publication by a wonderfully complete introduction by Robert Lethridge, who provides an insightful commentary on the writer as well as explaining the social and political context for "Bel Ami."  Lethridge has also compiled the helpful end notes/glossary that explain specific references in the novel.Overall, this is a brilliant piece of writing by Maupassant, well-presented by Oxford Books.  It is more than a little uncomfortable to read at times as the main character is such an unredeemable rotten egg, but the story has such power, that it's very hard to put down.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It’s keeping me interested
  

*by D***I on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024*

I’ve just started it and it is keeping me interested. I can’t say the same about the forward though.

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