Diary of a Madman (Guy de Maupassant)
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| "Diary of a Madman" | |||
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| Short story by Guy de Maupassant | |||
| Country | France | ||
| Language | French | ||
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| Published in | Le Gaulois | ||
| Publication date | 1885 | ||
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"Diary of a Madman" (French: "Un Fou") is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
History
[edit | edit source]The short story was first published in the newspaper Le Gaulois on September 2, 1885, before being reprised in the Monsieur Parent collection.[1]
This short story should not be confused with Un fou ?, published in 1884. The 1885 short story begins with the following words:
Il était mort chef d'un haut tribunal...
Synopsis
[edit | edit source]As secretary to a judge who is said to be an "honest magistrate whose irreproachable life was talked about in every court in France", a lawyer finds a strange journal.
Editions
[edit | edit source]- Le Gaulois, 1885
- Monsieur Parent - collection published in 1885 by the editor Paul Ollendorff
- Maupassant, contes et nouvelles, volume II, text established and annotated by Louis Forestier, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Éditions Gallimard, 1979
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Maupassant, Contes et nouvelles, II, Éditions Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1979, (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
External links
[edit | edit source]- File:Speaker Icon.svg Diary of a Madman public domain audiobook at LibriVox
