Description
Returning from a convent at seventeen, Jeanne de Lamare steps into the carefully scripted world of nineteenth-century respectability—where marriage is expected to provide meaning, and personal desire is often treated as a private inconvenience. As her life unfolds through love, disappointment, and the quiet pressures of family and society, Maupassant traces how small choices and unspoken truths can shape a woman’s fate as surely as any grand event. With a keen eye for psychology and a style reminiscent of the realism that made his mentor Flaubert famous, he builds a portrait of longing and constraint, revealing the emotional costs of living by convention. At its heart, this is a novel about agency and illusion: what happens when a life is measured less by fulfillment than by appearances.
Available Editions
paperback
Editions 84
Published Jan 1, 1986
236 pages
ISBN: 9782277219521
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Details
First Published
1883
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant.