Short stories, almost too much, never allow time to get tired ... I am always surprised by the narrative flow, the ruthlessly efficient. Maupassant juggles human emotions, and fantasy is often a pretext for revealing the torments of the soul and the heart. His pen equal in my opinion that of Poe, in the same field. The writer never in the dark temptation to burden these stories. It remains surprisingly sober. Some pages suffice to say the essential, and in the end it is often the reader will have to decide, decide. Timeless. Unmissable.