Title: Madame Hermet
Title Record # 1733599
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1887-01-18
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French
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Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1887-01-18
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French
Note: Borderline genre; this story reflects on madness and the possibility of escape from reality. First published in Gil Blas, 18 January 1887.
Synopsis: This story starts with the narrator expressing conflicted feelings of attraction and repulsion toward madness. On the one hand madness seems like freedom-- without reason, anything should be possible. On the other hand, the concerns of insane people are built of the same quotidian stuff as other people's, and thus not really an escape. He illustrates this by telling his encounter with Madame Hermet, a patient at an asylum. She was once a great beauty. Her son contracted smallpox, and she was too much afraid of the disfiguring effects of the illness to visit him when he was dying. Her conflicting emotions were so great that she lost her reason; now her preoccupation circles incessantly around worrying about the state of her face, and fretting about pockmarks that she is certain are daily appearing there.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Contes fantastiques complets | 1973-00-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique #464) |
384 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Contes fantastiques complets | 1976-00-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique #464) |
380+ [4] |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Qui sait ?: et autres histoires étranges | 1981-00-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Union générale d'éditions (Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur) | 2-264-00345-6 | 297 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Frank Sérac | ||
Contes fantastiques complets | 1983-01-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique #464) |
2-501-00040-4 | 384 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Contes fantastiques complets | 1996-01-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout?Bibliotheque Marabout #9001) |
2-501-00948-7 | 384 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques | 2000-00-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classique #840) | 2-253-00539-8 | F20.00?F: French frank |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Léon Spilliaert?Leon Spilliaert
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Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques?Le Horla: et autres recits fantastiques |
2011-08-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classiques #840) | 978-2-253-00539-1 | €3.00?€: Euro |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Francesco Oller y Cestero |