Guy de Maupassant
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel (EN)
- 01 – Poverty
- 02 – Madame Forestier
- 03 – First Attempts
- 04 – Duroy Learns Something
- 05 – The First Intrigue, part one
- 06 – The First Intrigue, part two
- 07 – The First Intrigue, part three
- 08 – A Step Upward, part one
- 09 – A Step Upward, part two
- 10 – A Duel with an End
- 11 – Death and a Proposal
- 12 – Marriage, part one
- 13 – Marriage, part two
- 14 – Jealousy
- 15 – Mme Walter Takes a Hand, part one
- 16 – Mme Walter Takes a Hand, part two
- 17 – A Meeting and the Result
- 18 – Madame Marelle, part one
- 19 – Madame Marelle, part two
- 20 – The Will
- 21 – Suzanne, part one
- 22 – Suzanne, part two
- 23 – Divorce
- 24 – The Final Plot
- 25 – Attainment
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him – a power so irresistible that all women yielded to it.”
Though firmly set in 1880s Paris, Maupassant’s gripping story of an amoral journalist on the make could, with only slight modifications of detail, be updated to the 1960s, to the Reagan-Thatcher years, or maybe to the present day. Anti-hero Georges Duroy is a down-at-heel ex-soldier of no particular talent. Good-looking but somewhat lacking in self-confidence, he discovers an ability to control and exploit women – whereupon his career in journalism takes off, fuelled by the corruption of colleagues and government arrivistes. He may be a provincial Don Juan, but he is neither accident-prone nor heading for a fall…
A Hollywood screen adaptation is in preparation at the time of recording. (Summary by Martin Geeson)
Genre(s): General Fiction
Language: English
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