BEL AMI 


Guy de Maupassant 


Guy de Maupassant 


Bel Ami 


or THE History of a Scoundrel 


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Bel Ami, or The History 
of a Scoundrel 


by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) 


“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of 
attraction which he felt within him - a power so 
irresistible that all women yielded to it.” 


Though firmly set in 1880s Paris, Maupassant's 
gripping story of an amoral journalist on the make 
could, with only slight modifications, be updated to the 1960s, to the 
Reagan-Thatcher years, or maybe to the present day. Anti-hero Georges 
Duroy is a down-at-heel ex-soldier of no particular talent. Good-looking 
but somewhat lacking in self-confidence, he discovers an ability to 
control and exploit women - whereupon his career in journalism takes 
off, fuelled by the corruption of colleagues and government arrivistes. 
He may be a provincial Don Juan, but he is neither accident-prone nor 
heading for a fall... 


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