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Pierre and Jean

Guy de Maupassant

Book Overview: 

This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the younger brother. Pierre, the protagonist, is puzzled, jealous, and increasingly bitter. A bequest, a secret, a major decision. This, Maupassant’s fourth novel, is considered by many to be his finest.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Roland's lively and bold imagination; he had made friends with the old Pole, without, however, having ever extracted from him any revelation as to his former career. It was owing to the young doctor that this worthy had come to settle at Havre, counting on the large custom which the rising practitioner would secure him. Meanwhile he lived very poorly in his little shop, selling medicines to the small tradesmen and workmen in his part of the town.

Pierre often went to see him and chat with him for an hour after dinner, for he liked Marowsko's calm look and rare speech, and attributed great depth to his long spells of silence.

A simple gas-burner was alight over the counter crowded with phials. Those in the window were not lighted, from motives of economy. Behind the counter, sitting on a chair with his legs stretched out and crossed, an old man, quite bald, with a large beak of a nose which, as a prolongation of his hairless forehead, gave him a melan. . . Read More

Community Reviews

3,5*

Entrei nesta obra de Guy de Maupassant cheia de inocência, a julgar que “Pierre e Jean” relataria uma rivalidade entre dois irmãos, mas o autor preferiu apimentar as coisas. Pierre sente ciúmes de Jean desde que o benjamim nasceu e quando este recebe uma avultada herança de um velho amigo da fam

[Fresh from his triumphs in Bel-Ami, ROBERT PATTINSON will shortly be appearing in Pierre et Jean, directed by A FAMOUS FRENCH DIRECTOR. The following outtake has turned up on YouTube]

FRENCH DIRECTOR: Vous vous souvenez peut-être, j'ai dit que tout le monde doive lire le roman. Monsieur Pattinson, n

«Ci è capitata, stasera, una cosa molto strana. Un amico di mio padre, morendo, ha lasciato tutto il suo patrimonio a mio fratello.»
Il farmacista sembrò non capire subito; ma dopo aver riflettuto un momento, si augurò che il dottore ereditasse per metà. Quando Pierre gli spiegò come stavano le cose,

حكاية عن الغيرة، الخيانة، التشتت، المشاعر المخفية التي تتخلل علاقة الإخوة، وعن الأهل حين لا يكونون كفؤاً لحمل هذه المسؤولية المقدسة .. تراجيديا مؤلمة نجح الكاتب في رسمها، وأبدع في تناوله لصراع الإنسان مع مشاعره؛ كيف تنغرس بذرة الشك الخبيثة في نفسه وتجعل جانباه الطيب والقاسي يتنازعانه بلا هوادة، ليتر

The obvious reading of this novel is that of the fragility of familial life, how the intertwined relations of multiple persons over a lifetime can be rent asunder by a chance of fate that was neither sought nor expected.

Yet I can't help think there is a deeper meaning to this novel than this surfac

you know how something being at the tip of your tongue is like the most aggravating feeling in the world?

i know for a fact that my high school french class had a RAGING and hilarious inside joke about this book, and i cannot for the life of me remember what it is.

so every time i see it, i am cursed

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