Dark as death

"Old age is a shipwreck," exclaimed General de Gaulle. In Strong as death, Maupassant features a torque of up in his winter years. He is a painter; her bourgeois married. All is for the best in the best of worlds until her daughter returned to live with her. This teenager opens to life and furiously reminds our hero's childhood sweetheart. This is when feelings are born in his heart and he had must painter mother and daughter with him to ward off the fear and feeling of old age. But such a travesty of love can not give anything good and it will cost quite incestuous desire our tragic couple ... Mastering each sentence of his novel as a rider master his mount, Maupassant wrote a beautiful book about old age, tragedy of love and death.