Without ever judging his characters (we do it for him), he dissects love both deep and superficial, where the physical and youth are the primordial values.
Roman cruel on the woman who does not accept aging to the point of envying his daughter and wanting away from the family home as quickly as possible so as not to suffer the comparison, on a beautiful old falling madly in love with daughter of his lover, Strong as death is surely one of the best novels of Maupassant.
