Une vie (Maupassant)

Une Vie

Une vie also known as L'Humble Vérité is the first novel written by Guy de Maupassant. It was serialised in 1883 in the Gil Blas, then published in book form the same year as L'Humble Vérité.

It was the basis for the 1958 film One Life, directed by Alexandre Astruc^[1] and an award-winning 2016 film directed by Stéphane Brizé.^[2]

Legacy

Leo Tolstoy called Une Vie "an excellent novel, not only incomparably the best novel by Maupassant, but almost the best French novel since Hugo's Les Miserables." ^[3]

References

↑ "Une vie". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2 August 2015.
↑ "Cinéma: le prix Louis Delluc décerné à "Une vie" de Stéphane Brizé". France24 (in French). 14 December 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
↑ "The Works of Guy de Maupassant". Retrieved 2 August 2015.

Works by Guy de Maupassant
Bibliography
Novels	Une Vie Bel Ami Pierre et Jean Le Rosier de Madame Husson
Story collections	Les Soirées de Médan La Maison Tellier Mademoiselle Fifi
Short stories	"À vendre" "Le Baptême" "La Bête à Maît' Belhomme" "Boule de Suif" "La Confidence" "Deux Amis" "Un fou" "The Horla" "Imprudence" "L'Inconnue" "Mademoiselle Fifi" "La Maison Tellier" "Mother Savage" "The Necklace" "La Peur" "The Piece of String" "Pierrot" "Suicides" "Tribunaux Rustiques" "Useless Beauty"

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