In this collection, Guy de Maupassant's attention is fixed on the woman instead of 'left hand'.
`Allouma 'is a portrait of a` wild', 'sensual pleasure beast that had a woman's body'.
'Ordinance' and `Hautot father and son 'have as subject adultery, mistress; `One evening 'jealousy (` fire drops on the caeur').
It analyzes a remarkable way of universal traits of human beings, such as xenophobia (`Boitelle '), greed (` Rabbit'), suspicion or hypocrisy (`The Dead '). It breaks the taboo of incest ('The Port').
His vision of women is blackish (`glorified disgrace of all the mistresses of old kings, respected the shame of all the virgins who accept old husband. ')
His vision of the human species is dark black. In `The Dead ', the resurrected dead rave replace the inscriptions on their graves by texts that reveal the real and horrible truths behind the façade: all had been` executioners of their relatives, hateful, dishonest, hypocrites, liars, deceivers, slanderers, envious, they stole, cheated, these so-called men and women beyond reproach. '
All those who do not support the fight for survival commit suicide (`The soporific ').
Mastering the art of the new (see the introduction to his novel `Peter and John ') and the exploration of the human soul by Guy de Maupassant are unmatched.
