Guy de Maupassant’s (1850-1893) works present characteristic elements of the literature made at the end of the 19th century, proposing variations of the realist and naturalist styles. Well-known in Zola’s (1840-1902) circles, one of the most representative novelists of literary Naturalism, Maupassant also kept in touch with other important masters of the French Realism, and Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was one of them. Among verse, drama, and novel, the short stories and the novellas predominate over the Norman writer’s works, which paint with either impressionist or realist colors the bourgeois and the decadent scene of the last quarter of the century in Paris, Normandy and its neighborhood. Once Maupassant had not put aside the reflection...