A Biography of Guy de Maupassant.

        Before and after the war, Maupassant had the fortunate pleasure on meeting Gustave Flaubert.  His mother Laure had set up the encounter in 1867, where he met with Gustave in Croisset, France. After his return from the war, Maupassant mother requested from Flaubert to take care of her son. An apprenticeship emerged from this, where Maupassant the writer was created. Flaubert is believed to have lectured him on the style of prose, and even corrected his early work. Flaubert also introduced him to some of the leading writers of that time. He convened with writers such as, Émile Zola, Ivan Turgenev, Edmond Goncourt and Henry James to name a few.

During the 1800’s he wrote 300 short stories, six novels, an anthology, and poems. He is renown for stories such as “Boule de Suife” ( Ball of Fat, 1800), La Maison Tellier  (1881), Une Vie ( A Woman’s Life, 1883), Bel-Ami (1885), Pierre Et Jean (1888) a psychological study of two brothers, Le Horla (1887), was about madness and suicide.  

In his early 20s, it was discovered he was suffering from syphilis. He refused to undergo treatment, which would later result in the cause of his increased mental disorder. As his diseased progressed, you would see it accentuate in his work. This brought much in common with Edgar Allan Poe’s supernatural visions stories. In January 2, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat. This resulted in his admission in an asylum of Dr. Esprit Blanche in Paris, France. The last years of his life, his health declined due to his disease, in which he had to endure for many years. He passed away the following year on June 6, 1893, but his work lives on even till this day.