2007-04-30 16:13:52 · 2 answers · asked by Xquisite Shawtey 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
it's been a long time since i last read maupassant but as i remember the story it felt to me that the men were trying to maintain a semblence of normalcy or even recapture fleeting moments of a time of their lives that was unscarred by the deprivations and ravages of the war that had usurped the world they once knew.
2007-04-30 16:28:05 · answer #1 · answered by mz tury 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guy de Maupassant lived and served in war, wrote about it, and ended it all a sad and tormented man. We can see all this through his literature and in the way he writes his dark and melancholy works. July 15th, 1870, Emperor Napoleon III, “Led his nation into one of the most disastrous wars in her history” (Naranjo). Napoleon made the fatal mistake of attacking the Prussians, and the Germans, thus started the Franco-Prussian war. At the Age of twenty Maupassant joined the French army and went to fight in the war.
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2007-04-30 23:31:56 · answer #2 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋