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Strong as Death
Guy de Maupassant
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The guests exclaimed and applauded. No one, except Olivier Bertin, knew of Annette de Guilleroy's return, and the appearance of the young girl beside her mother, who at a little distance seemed almost as fresh and even more beautiful—for, like a flower in full bloom, she had not ceased to be brilliant, while the child, hardly budding, was only beginning to be pretty—made both appear charming.
The Duchess, delighted, clapped her hands, exclaiming: "Heavens! How charming and amusing they are, standing beside each other! Look, Monsieur de Musadieu, how much they resemble each other!"
The two were c. . . Read More
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Voglio un tesor che assai più vale, Voglio la gioventù (W. Goethe)
La prima cosa che ho fatto dopo aver terminato il romanzo è stato verificare quanto fosse successivo a L’eredità
Forte come la morte (Fort comme la mort, 1889)
L'eredità (L'Héritage, 1884)
Ci sono cinque anni e debbono esser stati assai
Maupassant, a master of the fin de siècle potboiler, meanders along in this entertaning if inessential contribution to a corpus of cherubic French classics. The plot takes second place to the stylish prose, elevating a rather ho-hum tale of a painter’s unfortunate infatuation with a countess’s daugh
Άσμα ασμάτων.
Βάλε με σφραγίδα στην καρδιά σου,
ωσάν σφραγίδα στο μπράτσο σου·
είναι δυνατή η αγάπη σαν το θάνατο
και σκληρός ο πόθος σαν τον άδη·
οι σπίθες της είναι σπίθες της φωτιάς,
φλόγα του Θεού.
Νερά ποτάμια δεν μπορούν
να σβήσουν την αγάπη.
(μετάφραση Γιώργος Σεφέρης)
«Δυνατός σαν το θάνατο». «Κρατα
There are two main themes to this novel. The main plot is as follows: an artist is involved in a twelve year affair with a married woman. She became his mistress at a very young age, while the artist is certainly a decade or more older than she. As the time passes, the two fall into a relaxed relati