Life

The novel, after the release of which Turgenev called Maupassant "undoubtedly the most talented of all contemporary French writers." Day after day, year after year, the life of the beautiful Jeanne, the baron's daughter, unfolds before us — the love, the happiness of the first years of marriage, the pain of her husband's infidelity, motherhood, widowhood, old age… This genius in its simplicity book captivates the reader with its depth of insight into the female soul, the brightness of the realistic, impassive, and sometimes ruthless author's gaze at the eternal "burden of human passions."